Everything is pre-paid in Malawi. You have to buy credit for your phone and input it in order to make a call. You have to do the same for your power (we have run out twice now and had to go to the gas station in the middle of the night to purchase additional credit).
Once you put the credit in, it is very expensive to make phone calls, so people are sparing with their time spent on the phone and often we communicate only through text messages. In addition, when people really have hardly any credit, they call you and hang up, waiting for you to call them back. This procedure is called flashing, and resulted in our friend Elizabeth asking two guys the other day "Now, if I give you my number, will you flash me?"
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