“Thank You for Your Service”

When I was home last November, I went to a church play that my Uncle Jonny was in. Since it was a church play, they had call outs from the cast to the audience, you know like "Suzy thanks her mom for driving her to play practice every night", "Brad says 'Hi' to his beautiful …

Ramadan and Goat Thieves

So yes hello every six months I update my blog! Ramadan just ended on Monday, and I just realized that two posts ago I also wrote about Ramadan,  but now with the fresh perspective of another year in Peace Corps,  I’ll use this opportunity to walk you through a day in the life of me …

Guess Who’s Back, Back Again

Im baaaaack! Sorry for the long break, but to be honest I've been at site for over a year now (as of December 9th hooray!), and I forgot about blogging. But last month, I went home for three weeks and people would be like...what happened to your blog? I liked your posts! Which inflated my …

The Ramadan Report

Hello darling public! Have you missed me? Its time to give you the ultimate Ramadan update - who's excited? In case you didn't know, Ramadan is a month of fasting that Muslims participate in each year. It is, in fact, one of the five pillars of Islam. Each year the dates for Ramadan changes because …

Did I Ever Tell You About the Time

Did I ever tell you about the time when I discovered I was a hipster? I think since I just hit my seventh month in Senegal, I've become like a caricature of what a typical PCV is like. I just came back to internet after three weeks at site. A few days into my latest …

Hot in Tamba

I know that I moved to a Sahelian climate, but its hot here. I mean like...really hot. People don't do anything between the hours of about noon and four. I mean, the women still cook lunch in kitchens that are usually 15 degrees warmer than the rest of the world, and then they shell peanuts …

Things That Have Never Happened to me Before

Let me preface this post by stating the obvious - I am a white, college educated female between the ages of 18 and 25 from suburban America. For the first time in my life, I am living in a community where I am virtually the only person who fits this demographic. So things happen to …

My Actual Job – Now what?

So now that I'm back from in service training, my site mates and I have to actually do our jobs. For all of our language, culture, and technical training, and the first three months we've actually been living with our host families in villages, my stage hasn't actually done much work. Our job has just …

Oz

The past few weeks I’ve been totally out of site, and it’s so strange! There are so many things that pull me out and keep me out. At the beginning of this month, I had language seminar in the regional capital. Basically, me and the two other people in my language group met with our …

Pictures of Africa

So while I'm still at site and not expected to start projects yet as I settle in and integrate with my community, I don't have much of an update. However, I did take several might I say gorgeous photos, that look even more awesome thanks to the totally natural chrome filter setting I have on …