from kateri: Malawian Adventures - By the numbers

Taken from "Malawian Adventures - By the numbers"

38 average life expectancy in Malawi

8 number of full-sized woven reed chairs carried on one bicycle

6 average number of children per family

9 number of months I have been here, as of yesterday

122 number of kwacha per dollar

5 number of bicycles our community owns

0 number of bicycles that are currently ride-able

6 number of flat tires we've had in the past 3 weeks

3 number of kwacha for one mango

13 number of girls in the accounting course at the beginning of the year

1 number of girls in the accounting course as of today

1800 number of kwacha it would have cost me to send a 300 g package to my sister for her birthday (sorry sis, you're gonna have to wait on that)

28 number of people fit into one minibus (our record)

1 & 2 number of goats and chickens (respectively) also aboard the record setting minibus

3 for 5 number of bananas (little ones - about 4 inches) for number of kwacha

12 number of girls in the second year secretarial class

200 number of kwacha per kg to buy meat from the carcasses hanging along the road

0 number of students that turned in their last assignment

2 number of geckos I can currently see, as I sit here typing

400 number of kwacha for one hour of internet at the place across town

2.5 number of hours the average Sunday mass lasts

1.5 number of hours I waited one Sunday past the scheduled time for the second mass to start because the first one was just that long 

12 number of full time teachers in our school

5 number of new teachers we have had to hire in our school, due to firings and leavings, so far this year

100-200 range of kwacha paid per day for the average laborer

10,000 monthly salary, in kwacha, for teachers at BEC

8 number of bags of chimanga (corn) consumed by the average family in one year

3 average number of bags of chimanga harvested this year by the families that need 8 (due to drought)

28 number of useless numbers I was able to come up with for this email