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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: Everything but the Cranberry Sauce
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December 1, 2009. Everything but the Cranberry Sauce. We set the date for Saturday, and she Christian, and two other volunteers who live at my site began preparing for the feast. So what do you get when 3 Peace Corps volunteers, a Belgian, and a Canadian set out to make Thanksgiving dinner in a wooden hut without an oven? A Thanksgiving dinner that was just like home –with everything but the cranberry sauce. Naturally, the whole process to about 10 times longer than it would in the States, and we ended u...
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: October 2009
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October 20, 2009. It Takes Two, Baby. It feels great to look forward to all the lessons I can nail the second time around, all the projects I’m more equipped to organize, and all the relationships I can cultivate free of major cultural gaffes. I’d like to say I haven’t really changed—that I was right all along—but who am I kidding? Click Here to Read More. Posted by Whitney Kimmel. October 1, 2009. To all those wondering . Typhoon Ketsana has hit Cambodia. There's an article about it. Where I've Been .
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: January 2010
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January 6, 2010. Same Same, But Different. Even though he's serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Azerbaijan while I'm sweatin' it out in Cambodia. Maybe our day to day life isn't the same, and maybe he's sick of the snow instead of the heat, but fundamentally we're going through the same things. I can literally hear myself in almost every word of his post (and laughed myself silly reading it). Washing machine withdrawl, wondering what. Click Here to Read More. Posted by Whitney Kimmel. January 5, 2010.
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: September 2009
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September 30, 2009. Hari Raya in Singapore. Before I left Cambodia to attend the Hari Raya festival celebrating the end of Ramadan in Singapore, my Country Director told me some of his fondest memories from his own Peace Corps service in Malaysia were of the same festival … and the food that goes with it! 8230; it’s the struggle to answer the question without raining cookie crumbs all over the carpet that’s the real challenge. Always the lady, I know. Click Here to Read More. Posted by Whitney Kimmel.
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: June 2009
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June 5, 2009. Beautiful City, Beautiful Life". As part of international Environmental Awareness Week I asked the students in my private class to work in pairs and come up with a project to help solve an environmental issue in Pursat. Each team presented their plan to the group and then we voted on the best one. Prizes were involved, of course! I am impressed with the students’ initiative and passion about the issue and am looking forward to a very GREEN summer! Click Here to Read More. Or follow me on Tw...
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: Click Click
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January 5, 2010. Photos from the end of '09 and beginning of OH'10 already up under new album "The Beginning of the End" at right and a few samples of my students' New Year's Resolutions! Change Idea; Change Life". I decided that I don't go to school late.". This year I want to change my life to be more happy. In New Year 2010 I want to change my character and my habit that very lazy to try to study and try all my work.". Don't think about love - study harder instead! Posted by Whitney Kimmel. The though...
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: Expats, Immigration & Integration ...... Oh My!
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December 15, 2009. Expats, Immigration and Integration . Oh My! Almost every meal, my host mother asks me, “Do you have this dish in America? You make this in America? But more specifically, do you eat this in your everyday life? Whenever she says things like this, I can’t help but think about cultural integration and what that means. How many times have you sat in a nail salon listening to Vietnamese and feeling like a complete foreigner in your own town? To fully integrate to appreciate a culture?
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: December 2009
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December 15, 2009. Expats, Immigration and Integration . Oh My! Almost every meal, my host mother asks me, “Do you have this dish in America? You make this in America? But more specifically, do you eat this in your everyday life? Whenever she says things like this, I can’t help but think about cultural integration and what that means. How many times have you sat in a nail salon listening to Vietnamese and feeling like a complete foreigner in your own town? To fully integrate to appreciate a culture?
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Far and Away: My Peace Corps Experience | Whitney Kimmel: July 2009
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July 18, 2009. Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance. Mike the Mechanic I’m not, and this afternoon’s – scenario – may have been. My fault (read: haven’t put air in my tires/oiled my chain/any other form of bike maintenance since Christmas when I connived Dan into doing it for me…), but seriously people: how many barangs. Does it take to change a bike tire? That being said, I decided there was really nothing to do besides bike back and have some lunch. And a nap. And then. Click Here to Read More. My bi...
