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beauty in the unseen...: July 2010
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Saturday, July 10, 2010. It's an impossible question with many different answers, but I will do my best to give you the simplest one. First, a bit of background: While diarrheal. Disease is responsible for 1.8 million deaths per year; 90% of these deaths occur among children under 5, mostly in developing countries (2004). For this reason, many education...
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beauty in the unseen...: December 2008
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Monday, December 15, 2008. It's a bitter sweet symphony. Today is my last day in Ghana. I woke up at 5:15am and ran up commonwealth hill one last time to watch the sun rise. it was beautiful. The next 13 hours will be spent running last minute errands and saying "yebeshia bios" (we will meet again soon), to friends and family. S Electoral Commission has...
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beauty in the unseen...: October 2008
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. End of Ramadan in nima. Pictures from the festival. Miriam, Becca, and I. Ready for the festival. Yes we are wearing pants and scarves in 90 degree heat! Breaking of the fast. A day of sharing and eating. Candidate for the NDC (National Democratic Congress),. John Evans Atta Mills, waves to the crowd. We definitely had to fi...
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beauty in the unseen...: Photography
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, studying Peace and Conflict Studies with a concentration in global governance and economics. I am currently studying at the University of Ghana, Legon for the Fall 2008 semester. View my complete profile. Tis a gift to be simple. Keep the lights burning.
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beauty in the unseen...: June 2010
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. I cannot believe that I have been in Mumbai for almost 2 weeks! I have been incredibly busy which has made time fly by. It’s not uncommon to pull a 16-hour workday – spending 8 to 10 hours in the field and having project meetings until 2am. It’s mentally and physically exhausting, but I love it! So so soooo disgusting! I am an un...
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beauty in the unseen...: Here we go again! India: Round 3
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Monday, June 7, 2010. Here we go again! Of a nation with a library of tales to share. With that said, I am very excited to see what kind of mischief I will get myself into this time around. Cant wait to hear about all your adventures. Clark and I had such a great time with you in Lost Angeles. You are always in our thoughts! June 7, 2010 at 10:31 PM.
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beauty in the unseen...: The Question
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Saturday, July 10, 2010. It's an impossible question with many different answers, but I will do my best to give you the simplest one. First, a bit of background: While diarrheal. Disease is responsible for 1.8 million deaths per year; 90% of these deaths occur among children under 5, mostly in developing countries (2004). For this reason, many education...
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beauty in the unseen...: May 2009
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Friday, May 29, 2009. E waste. aka Agbogbloshie. aka "wo ho ye fe paa". My last and lasting memory from Ghana. (links to e-waste info, news, and video at the bottom). Sunday, December 14, 2009. It was the day before our flight back to the US and Miriam and I had one last adventure ahead of us. She had read about an E-waste. I’m not sure what I had...
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beauty in the unseen...: So.. what exactly is a slum anyway?
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Beauty in the unseen. 8220;The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.” Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist. Tuesday, July 14, 2009. So what exactly is a slum anyway? I can't believe I have already been in India for a month and a half! For the past 6 weeks i have been working with HMS. So, i will finally begin trying to relay my experience by trying to answer the question i am asked most often: "So what exactly is a slum anyway? According to the UN, one billio...