Malawi is in Africa

I was sick the last few days, but am on the mend now. Not Malaria or anything serious; I’ll spare you any details. Anyways, since there’s not a whole lot new to report here, I thought I’d share a Malawi related story that I got in the mail from my mom:

“I can’t remember if I have told you what an adventure it is taking mail for you to the post office. With every new clerk, they tell me I need to put the country on the envelop/package. I respond, “Malawi is in Africa.” “Well, you need to put ‘Africa’.” I remind them that it is a continent. Twice they have tried to put Africa in as the country and keep getting defaulted to Afghanistan resulting in much distress for them. When the clerk finally “gets” that Malawi is indeed a country, he or she gets VERY embarrassed. I, of course, now can point to another clerk & say, “oh he did the same thing.””

My fellow staff members at MCV found the story quite hilarious. (I know, I know, I’m giving Americans a bad reputation.)

I thought Madonna had finally put us on the map!