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co co quoi: Ghana, baby!, or Do I make you hungry, baby?
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Saturday, December 12, 2009. Or Do I make you hungry, baby? As mentioned in an earlier post, Dave and I went to Ghana for a conference and a few days of vacation. Ghana itself is a fantastic country and I would recommend all of you visit it, if you haven’t already. Because we went primarily for the conference and not a vacation, we only nipped at the surface of all that Ghana has to offer. I’ll take you through quickly. OK, that’s Accra. View from our porch. Another shot of the view from our porch. Dave ...
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co co quoi: Happy Independence Day!
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Saturday, December 12, 2009. Friday, December 11 was Independence Day here in. The actual day that independence from. Was declared was in August, but August is prime cultivating time since it’s in the thick of the rainy season. Sources we spoke to said that people wouldn’t leave the fields to celebrate Independence Day if it were in August, so the powers that be found a proxy date in December somehow. People celebrate by marching in parades all over the country. Oh, and we saw a cute monkey at the parade.
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co co quoi: Finally, the post where I ask you guys for money
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Saturday, December 12, 2009. Finally, the post where I ask you guys for money. My colleague Casey is managing a project here where needy schools and other institutions here in. Can get computers cheaply from the. To make a long story short, there was an unexpected cost associated with shipping. The amount that we’re short, $2,500, is how much we need to raise to get the computers. Increasing computer literacy is such a worthy cause! Thanks and happy holidays! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). As of thi...
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co co quoi: March 2010
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010. I’ve been busy lately. With the help of my counterpart, I’ve been administering surveys to cashew farmers, exporters and transporters for a study commissioned by the West Africa Trade Hub. I’ve also been helping to plan the Close-of-Service party for the group of PCVs that are leaving this summer. Friday’s the big day and the party will be quite the Soirée Rubix. Stay tuned to Facebook for pictures! OK Erik Durant, You Got Served! Yeah, that’s right Erik. Nearly all ready-made ...
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co co quoi: You’ve Got SMS
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010. You’ve Got SMS. Here’s a sampling of some of my favorite text messages, with identifying details removed to protect the innocent:. 4/9/09 8:42 PM: “I would kill to play Scrab. I somehow spent 3 hours in a trance like state peeling off the ‘guaranteed wax’ sticker from a pagna. No exaggeration.”. 5/10/09 7:38 PM: “Where did u get ur info that * * * is really religious? We need to know b.c * * only wants 2 bl* him if he is.”. I don’t know! 9/7/09 8:15 PM: “Yes. I just p...All I&#...
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co co quoi: Millions Like Us
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010. For a while I’ve bandied about lots of blog ideas but I can never quite materialize them into something longer than a couple sentences. It may be because I’ve now been a resident of. For 16 months so I’m afflicted with Donkey Cart Syndrome, a phenomenon that my APCD illuminated for me. I’ve become habituated to things that erstwhile would have been interesting or novel but I now find mundane and quotidian… like donkey carts. My immaturity makes me want to respond to these overt...
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co co quoi: A banna
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Is a Jula verb (usually requiring an auxillary verb) that means, contingent on context, "finished," "completed," "no longer available" or "dead." So. Can be taken to mean:. There isn't any more available. Which may be an apt title for my very last blog post, as my Peace Corps experience =. In case you're wondering, yes I would do it again if I had the chance! However there are some other Peace Corps case studies posted here. Thank you, Peace Corps Burkina Faso and people of Bur...
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co co quoi: January 2010
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Saturday, January 2, 2010. Yesterday’s class topic was French numbers. I interrupted a pre-planned lesson to switch abruptly to numbers after I asked the women for their phone numbers, and one woman had memorized the sequence of the numbers but didn’t know what number translated to “ quatre-vingt cinq. 8221; (85) and neither did the woman sitting next to her. During the lesson, as I was writing “50 – cinquante. The ages are 25, 35, 41, 42, and 51. Which woman attended a madrassa. After much thought and r...
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co co quoi: October 2009
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Sunday, October 25, 2009. In late August, Dave and I applied to be official volunteer coaches for APSIP, a 12 day workshop for. Students interested in entrepreneurship. E split into 6 groups of 5 – 7 people and asked to develop a business plan for an entrepreneurial idea. To help them, the workshop featured lec. Tures on topics ranging from basic accounting to marketing to tax aspects. At the end of the 2 weeks, the students presented their elevator pitch to a jury panel. Which forced us to modify our ap...
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co co quoi: OK Erik Durant, You Got Served!!
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010. OK Erik Durant, You Got Served! Yeah, that’s right Erik. 8211; you totally got served after you challenged me about blog updating in the Numb3rs comment. Lets see you dance, sucka! PS- Sorry, I realize this reference is hella dated, but its still cutting-edge in Burkina. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). OK Erik Durant, You Got Served! You’ve Got SMS. Ryan et sonia en Afrique. July 24th cometh and goeth. Burkina Bound: Adventures in the Peace Corps. My loyal readers may remem...
