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T in Mali: (Mis) Adventures in Eating
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Mis) Adventures in Eating. By popular request, I'm blogging about fish heads this week instead of my mandate. Ask and ye shall receive:. As I've alluded to before. As opposed to individuelle. Like home, thanks pre-departure intercultural sensitivity training! Where decisions are meant to be made and actions undertaken with everyone else in mind. So it only took 3.5 months, but finally I've...
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T in Mali: Family Time and the Continental Divide
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Monday, January 17, 2011. Family Time and the Continental Divide. This is a marriage sack according to a Google image search. I always imagined something more ominous looking. Is probably pretty boring to anyone else but me. It's even boring for me sometimes. For example, last week I worked on a "cadre logique" for a project, do you want me to tell you what a "cadre logique" is? It appears that my family's "introducto...
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T in Mali: January 2011
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Monday, January 17, 2011. Family Time and the Continental Divide. This is a marriage sack according to a Google image search. I always imagined something more ominous looking. Is probably pretty boring to anyone else but me. It's even boring for me sometimes. For example, last week I worked on a "cadre logique" for a project, do you want me to tell you what a "cadre logique" is? It appears that my family's "introducto...
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T in Mali: Culture Shock Explained: A Photographic Essay
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Culture Shock Explained: A Photographic Essay. I have just returned to Bamako and work after a blissful mid-mandate break in Djenné and Pays Dogon*, where I ate "cliff bread" and technicolour jam, survived a. Pics soon, they take forever to upload to the blog but are pretty much impossible to upload to Facebook unless I do it one and a time, which I won't because I have. The weather is getti...
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T in Mali
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. On what may be my last day in Mali ever, and having just left an angelshare in Hippodrome, I find myself trying to piece together a series of thoughts and memories whose impact on me I’ve not even begun to register. These new moments were amazing in the truest sense of the word; they left me shocked and awed and not always in a good way. Some were firsts. Some made me say WTF? Eating sheep li...
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T in Mali: July 2011
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Reverse Culture Shock Denied. Prior to my leaving Mali, my new friends speculated at how messed up I would be upon my " re-entry. Click for a *delightful definition of reverse culture shock.). I worried a bit about how I would feel coming back, but mostly I was looking forward to seeing my family and friends again, as well as using a sink. When exactly is your flight? The car drove away and e...
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T in Mali: Happy Tabaski!
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Wednesday, November 17, 2010. Today we celebrated la. Fête du mouton, or Tabaski. Or what I've been calling the sheep festival with the family of one of my Malian colleagues, Khady. Here we are in our adoptive family's neighbourhood. Tires take a beating, natch. He has no idea what is about to go down). In short, the next photos may offend. But it was an important part of the experience. Late in the afternoon, when th...
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T in Mali: T Gets Technical Part Deux: Savin' Babies, a Mandate in Review
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Thursday, March 31, 2011. T Gets Technical Part Deux: Savin' Babies, a Mandate in Review. By the end of next week I'll be in another country taking my sweet time enjoying myself before heading back to Canada, which means it's time to reflect back on my last 5 months in Mali. And that I may not end up working in the same area or place where I applied to. From this handy-dandy site:. It's an exercise of condensing the l...
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T in Mali: Reverse Culture Shock Denied
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Reverse Culture Shock Denied. Prior to my leaving Mali, my new friends speculated at how messed up I would be upon my " re-entry. Click for a *delightful definition of reverse culture shock.). I worried a bit about how I would feel coming back, but mostly I was looking forward to seeing my family and friends again, as well as using a sink. When exactly is your flight? The car drove away and e...
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T in Mali: Hilarious Misunderstandings and Misadventures
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Saint Augustine. Monday, December 13, 2010. Hilarious Misunderstandings and Misadventures. My son IS hot. Perhaps it's the heat or the anti-malarials, but I find this comic so very hilarious and worthy of risking redundancy. Last week, my older and younger brother fought in the yard over tea about who was going to marry me right in front of me. I told them, "fellas please, one at a time! That brings my total to: 8. Anyway, an exchange...
