New Arrival

So we were looking at our community of three Americans and two girls from Polish all in our twenties and decided that we just weren't diverse enough.  So we traded one American girl and one Polish girl for a Malaysian with an Indian background.  And to deversify our age range a little bit, she is in her 40's.  If only we could get 90 year old man from South America and a decent short stop, then we'd really have something.  Anyways, the new volunteer is Girlie.  Nope, not a description, that is her name.  I think a more accurate description would be to say she is confidently feminine.  She was a secretary starting at the age of 19 and then moved on to business administration for 9 years before coming here.  Her parents, whom she was helping care for passed away last year, and she decided to do something for herself and quite her job.  Ironically, this eventually led to her doing something for a lot of other people.  She spent some time in the UK with her sister and began a search for a volunteer position bringing her to the Canossians and to us in Malawi.  She is still waiting for her official assignment, even though nothing is ever really official here, but we anticiapate that she will be working in the secondary office, teaching English for Business Communications in the College, and possibly Bible Knowledge for the secondary.  She is a master of the Chinese, Indian, and Malaysian culinary arts and is rumoured to be good at giving foot messages.  We're pretty excited to have her here.