Sweckling: Swedish Heckling

I wrote up some notes while in Malawi over the summer about things I wanted to write about and finally have a bit of time to catch up.

The road trip back to Nkhata Bay for our extended weekend can be summed up in one word: sweckling. Swedish Heckling.

I'm not great at this, but thankfully, T$ and Lebekah gracefully befriended large numbers of random, interesting and fun people while traveling. So, we had a little travel family at Mayoka for the long weekend. Four Swedes, five-ish Americans and a Canadian. Games were played, conversations meandered and everyone was sweckled. As it turns out, Swedes are terrible hecklers. They just don't do it well. We learned that a Swedish version of Jerry Springer wouldn't last. If you assume that the insults, drama and passionate yelling are the primary drivers of the show and consider the sweckling it all makes sense. The Swedish version would consist of people saying things like "Oh...that was not a very nice thing to do to her" or "You are not the nicest of people" or "Please remove your hands from my husband, you pretty adulterer."

The weekend was full of celebrating and honorary citizenship to honor the US and Malawian Independence days. It was amazing how alike we all felt for that short time. The trip offered a much needed break from reality.

Fried mice or dirt piles?

Road trip! This past weekend was a long weekend for us. We were allowed to take Monday (July 5th) off in observance of the 4th of July and Tuesday July 6th is Malawian Independence day so that was a free day as well. We headed back up to Nkhata Bay for a relaxing weekend.

I love driving and road trips. The scenery, the unknown, getting lost, but mainly because you end up twisting through all sorts of topics that don't come up everyday. Generally when you move through life you don't have time to let your mind properly toss around stuff. Though it was hard to decide, I think my favorite was the conversation about whether it would be better to eat dirt piles or fried mice on a stick. Lebekah thought mice on a stick were more appropriate since we were in "mice on a stick land." We agreed on fried mice on a stick. Although, it's either better, or it's worse.