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Africa Shmafrica: Cheaters/Team Players
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. It occurred to me that it’s a little late to update my blog. But my mom has asked me to, and I like the idea of having a few memories written down about the end of my service. The problem isn’t in actually catching them—as far as we Peace Corps Volunteers can tell (because we ALL have this same problem in all parts of the country), that is to say I don’t think they are getting away with it under my nose. We catch the...I have a reputation...
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Africa Shmafrica: Whale Shark: A shark so large that it eats whales
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Whale Shark: A shark so large that it eats whales. That being said, the idea of swimming with an animal (a shark) bigger than a car and longer than a bus was terrifying to me. I had been having nightmares about hungry beasts in murky water for months in anticipation. 8221; We scrambled to get into our fins and cram our masks onto our faces, “IT’S OVER THERE GET IN GET IN GET IN! In the grip of terror I fell like a sack of potatoes into th...
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Africa Shmafrica: January 2011
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Friday, January 28, 2011. Meeting my brother in Vilanculos was a trip. He had gotten so much larger, by something like 20 pounds. He looked like a caricature of a 10 year old him, but he’s looked that way to me since forever. We were finally reunited after 15 months. Mom cried. And our adventure began. The car’s air conditioning didn’t work (despite guarantees otherwise). It was also leaking oil. My dad said that the most important thing was that we were together...
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Africa Shmafrica: Sick
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Thursday, June 9, 2011. Halfway through an impromptu meeting with my photography group this morning several awkward gazes to my waistline alerted me that my fly was down. I often arrive at school like this. Colleagues used to pull me aside and discretely tell me. It happens so frequently these days that they just point down. I hope that this isn't some kind of metaphor for my life. At 24 this is not a problem I foresaw having. Suffice it to say that you can't be a h...
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Africa Shmafrica: May 2011
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. As the conference approached I realized I wouldn’t be able to make it all the way to Inhambane City or Maxixe to check hotels and make reservations. Matt, the national coordinator, had offered to help and lives far closer to those cities, so I asked him to make the reservations and he accepted. He talked about several possibilities, including hotels outside of Inhambane and Maxixe. He would be going the next day, he said. Nope, bedridden. ...
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Africa Shmafrica: November 2011
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Tuesday, November 22, 2011. Whale Shark: A shark so large that it eats whales. That being said, the idea of swimming with an animal (a shark) bigger than a car and longer than a bus was terrifying to me. I had been having nightmares about hungry beasts in murky water for months in anticipation. 8221; We scrambled to get into our fins and cram our masks onto our faces, “IT’S OVER THERE GET IN GET IN GET IN! In the grip of terror I fell like a sack of potatoes into th...
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Africa Shmafrica: Preschoolers and the Chinese
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Saturday, April 16, 2011. Preschoolers and the Chinese. 30 preschoolers scream in unison. Every tuesday night I go to sleep with the deluded idea that I will sleep in Wednesday morning. Mondays and Tuesdays have half of my hours, so Tuesday night is the celebrated halfway point of my week. And yet. Until I see them of course, and heart melts and burdens are forgotten etc etc. I was floored, a chinese person that speaks Portuguese? And she stared at me in equal disbe...
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Africa Shmafrica: December 2010
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Wednesday, December 1, 2010. And time drags on here. Without work I am a fidgety, indolent blob of flesh. School is effectively over, some minor administrative paperwork remains. All I have to do is sign gradesheets. Maybe 30 minutes of real work in a day. So all I can say is that my life is pretty plain, so I sit around my house and pray for rain. But moments later it started raining, I mean really raining, and I understood. The roof on my house is sheets of zinc&#...
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Africa Shmafrica: October 2011
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Peace Corps Mozambique volunteer blog. Wednesday, October 5, 2011. I got another matakenha ("matah-kenya") in my foot. This is the fifth, and the first of this season. I get gauze, a clothespin, some matches, medical tape, a pair of fine tweezers, and some antiseptic ointment. I sit down on my bed and put my foot on a chair in good light. It's intact, one can almost see the miniscule eggs inside, and a huge improvement over the disaster of my last matakenha, which left my foot debilitated for days and re...
