Category: africa
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The Rains That Save the Animals.
It’s September 25, 2009. And it is raining. It should be the beginning of hot season but there have been signs of rain for weeks now. The winds are coming from the northwest. The mosquitoes are insanely bad. The frogs are singing at night. The bugs are chirping during the day. Zambians call it the […]
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It’s The End of The World as I Know it!
August in the village has been pretty slow. Why you ask? Well, school is closed for the holiday and I have no big projects to work on until school starts. What have you been up to? Well, that is why I’m blogging. For the first week of August I sat at my house, read books, […]
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Bye Mutinta!
One of my favorite things in the world has convinced me to stay in Zambia. I went home for the first 2 weeks of July. It was a great (and really fast) 2 weeks as I got to see a few friends and family I hadn’t seen in the year and five months that I […]
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An American Easter in Zambia…
This Easter I decided that I wanted to share the American Easter tradition, of an egg hunt and candy from the Easter Bunny, with my Zambian family. I never realized how obnoxious the idea that a bunny would come in the middle of the nite, leave candy in a basket, and then have an Easter […]
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I did it! I’m a PCV!
So I’m back! I haven’t blogged since I came back from India (a long LONG time ago) and now I’m a US Peace Corps Volunteer. I’m an education volunteer working in Zambia, it’s in Africa. (Google it!) I decided to start blogging again for one reason. People have stopped writing me letters and I still […]
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