back to work

Found mushrooms on the way home (being sold on the side of the road)…the largest white mushrooms I’ve ever seen…and they are good. I have new roommates in the cottage…knew there would be one—she was here for some time last year and is back for a year working as a nurse in the hospital. Her sister came out to work either at the school or the hospital for three months. They are nice but it is always a shock to the system to start living with new people…that night I sautéed one of the mushrooms and an onion to have on bread…and Amanda just looked at me…I offered her some and she declined only asking me if I wasn’t afraid I would get sick. The next morning at breakfast there were ants on the honey or the bread…and I ate it anyway…extra protein or something…and Amanda tells her sister that after a year she will be like that too…(I think I was more like this always but I just smiled).
And of course it is like we were never gone…home on the Saturday—church on the Sunday when I found out that it was public holiday on the Monday so no school though it has started again (the week before) and so there is lots to do in the office (but not on a public holiday)…it is malaria season with all the rain and mosquitoes so the hospital is super busy and going through patient charts like they are a renewable resource…I’m sure I could have kept traveling…and actually on the way back up Mozambique I did come up with another week of things to see in Malawi…had it all mapped out and worked so beautifully…and when I told Ute she just looked at me and said that there is no petrol…and she is right. I guess it is good one of us keeps their mind on the practical side of things.