Inside the Guest House

Still Waiting …..

Ground Hog Day in Ontario …. And I’ve been making a list of where we’ve spent the past few GHDs. … Time to be away from Canadian winter but still we work to co-ordinate with our Malawi hosts. Luckily, the semester has not started there yet. So, an exercise in patience.

It is an opportunity of course to say good bye yet again to parents, friends, family. And time too for more art lessons (thanks, Murray).

We have a writing project with a local writing group that is generating lots of emails. You can expect to see the results of that in time for Arts Week in September. Once again, collaborative writing unlodges the Writers’ Block.

But the Writers’ Blog is NOT unlodged. There is a comment area which we are putting some time into to make it easy to send us a message. Results: Argh! We won’t quit though because this blog is meant to be interactive, so please hang in for another while OK? We do promise to have photographs, art, trivia and lots of Malawi news for you all.

Cross your fingers that we get off the ground by the end of the week.

Reality Check

Reality Check

Out my window here in Peterborough, Canada, the park across the road from my home is covered in snow and dotted with black squirrels; joggers wear toques as they travel the track; the sunset – later by minutes each day – turns the sky into shades of fire and cotton candy and candles. I paint with furious brush strokes to capture the colour available for almost one quarter hour each afternoon, then imagine how it will be in Malawi.

You’re reading Claire (aka Dante) and Lloyd’s blog. I hope it won’t turn into Dante’s Inferno but you will certainly hear about it if it is.

Long hours of sunshine and humid heat, sound wonderful from this side of the Atlantic. This past two years has been a time of Reality Checks so why stop now? Our plan is to get involved with some of the University students in a writing capacity – poetry, prose, blogging – or as artists. And, there will be much for us to learn too.

For now, we wait for plane tickets, work visa, health insurance … and soon … we’re outta here.

colour

poached eggs