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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: October 2010
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Friday, October 29, 2010. I'm running an hour late. Four months and I'm already functioning on APT (African People's Time). I get out of the khombi after taking a roundabout way back from visiting a friend in a nearby town and run/walk to my hut. Roughly ten minutes later I'm sweating. It is not yet 10 in the morning. Awesome. I’ve never been so close to the reality, and there is nothing dramatic or momentous about it. Only another victim added, disappearing into ...I stand...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: February 2011
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Friday, February 18, 2011. 8221; as they saunter back to the main house. It is these moments at the end of the day that I must compare with those at the beginning. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. By Robert M. Sapolsky. A Tale of Love and Darkness. By Alexis de Tocqueville (rereading). Cry, the Beloved Country.
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: January 2011
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Tuesday, January 11, 2011. We napped with our heads leaning forward on the sharp edges of the seats in front of us, waking periodically when our overstuffed khombis hit a particularly substantial bump. We watched as the landscape became increasingly tropical. We remarked that the passing homesteads situated in clearings surrounded by palm trees were just that much better than our own in Swaziland. We started to joke about field separation to Mozambique. Every other Christma...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: Not so Much the Dog’s Life
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Friday, October 14, 2011. Not so Much the Dog’s Life. There are days when living in a southern African country is mundane. I’ve gotten used to it. 15 months will do that to a person. Why are the male dogs not neutered, might you ask? The thing is that as much as you are probably bemoaning these dogs fate, they are better off than a lot of their compatriots. My host family will at least feed them from time to time, albeit the offerings are mostly gruel-looking slop, but ...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: June 2010
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Monday, June 7, 2010. 18 days. That's how long I have until I fly to Atlanta for staging. 19 days. That's how long I have until I fly to Johannesburg, South Africa. 21 days, that's how long I have until I step foot on Swazi soil to begin 2 months of intensive training. Then 2 years of service. Needless to say, I'm busy. I named this blog after a book I had growing up. Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: October 2011
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Friday, October 14, 2011. Peace Corps family gathering. Bo Kaap neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa. Preschool graduation in my community last April. My high school friend Leire and I enjoying ourselves. On a wine tour near Stellenbosch, South Africa. Goofing off with bosisi bami (my sisters) in my hut. Leire and I on top of Table Mountain in Cape Town. A neighboring homestead in the backdrop of the Lubombo plateau. My host father is the one on the far right. In Swazila...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: June 2011
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Friday, June 24, 2011. A Bike Ride to Remember. They’ve been asking for weeks. Begging, pleading, staring at me with those big, round African child eyes, knowing those National Geographic-worthy expressions will somehow wear me down. 8221; I indulge them, grinning as I gather speed and start to pull away from them, their skinny legs a blur as they try to keep up. To see three grinning faces, all intent on catching me. I yell to them that I’m going to take a left o...The sce...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: A Delayed Goodbye
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Monday, December 10, 2012. It has been over four months since I left Swaziland and returned to the United States. I am grateful for all that Peace Corps and Swaziland gave me and I hope that I can retain that sense of appreciation for as long as I live. Below are a few highlights from my blog; entries I believe encapsulate my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Swaziland:. I’m running an hour late. Four months and I’m already functioning on APT (African Peopl...I find my hos...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: December 2012
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Monday, December 10, 2012. It has been over four months since I left Swaziland and returned to the United States. I am grateful for all that Peace Corps and Swaziland gave me and I hope that I can retain that sense of appreciation for as long as I live. Below are a few highlights from my blog; entries I believe encapsulate my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Swaziland:. I’m running an hour late. Four months and I’m already functioning on APT (African Peopl...I find my hos...
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland: April 2011
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Learning to Swim in Swaziland. Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Sometimes I nap, sometimes I work. It has come to my attention that I’m not blogging enough. Or responding to emails in a timely fashion. Nor writing letters or taking pictures at a rate that is acceptable to documenting this whole life-changing-Peace-Corps-experience thing. One of the activities we do in Writers Club is to discuss topics, sometimes controversial, that appeal to the students who then go home and write one to two page compositions ...
