I’m wrapping up a very nice visit to Austin before flying to San Francisco this weekend to house/apartment hunt. If anyone out in the Bay is looking for a roommate or knows someone who is, let’s talk! Here’s my craigslist post: $650 – Returned Peace Corps Volunteer looking for home (berkeley) I’m a newly-returned Peace [...]
America is awesome. They put bacon in the lima beans and school colors on the Confederate flag. But no really, it’s awesome. Yesterday I went to Albertson’s and bought every processed cheese, cocoa butter, and partially hydrogenated soybean oil product that I had been craving in Senegal—Mac N Cheese, Oreos, chocolate frosting—and today I packed [...]
Today I swallowed my last dose of mefloquine after taking it weekly for over 26 months. Mefloquine (a.k.a. Larium), provided by Peace Corps as one of our options for malaria prophylaxis, has a nasty reputation for causing everything from insomnia to suicidal ideation. When I was discussing Peace Corps with a member of the Berkeley [...]
The Washington Post has a very nice slideshow of photographs from Dakar set to a Baaba Maal song. It’s part of a groups of articles (1, 2) and slideshows (1, 2, 3) from/about Senegal. I liked that first slideshow because not only have I been to some of the places pictured in it, but I [...]
Weeks of Peace Corps training and service: 108 Books read: 108 One-hour miniDV tapes shot: 20 Donkeys captured on video braying: 1 CFA in the village women’s group’s bank account when I left: 369,500 Functioning wells in the village: 2 Square meters of enclosed gardening space next to the new well: 225 Babies born in [...]