Ok, back to songs for post titles. Makes it more fun that way. I spent Thursday in the hospital getting a bone marrow biopsy, and having a port installed in my chest. The biopsy wasn’t much fun, but was over fairly quickly. The results from it should give the doctors confirmation that there is no [...]
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Ok… a bit out of order here. I realized typing those last few updates that I never really closed out the Peace Corps section of this blog. I won’t go into detail here about the last months at site, but something needs to be mentioned. I ended up in Baltimore, working with the Shriver Peaceworker [...]
The last month has been a whirlwind. Since the initial diagnosis in early April, I’ve been running around like a crazy person, figuring out insurance (done), getting set up with a good Oncologist (done), get staging for the disease (done), and start considering treatment options (done-ish). In roughly that order: Insurance ended up being surprisingly [...]
But here we go. Up and running with the blog again. A month ago I sent out the following email to friends and family: Hey All, I’m sorry I’m not calling you all, but as you can see from the list above, there’s quite a few people here. Most of you know that I’ve had [...]
Dear Oscar,
It is my privilege to announce that the Master’s Admissions Committee of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) has reviewed your application file and offered you admission to our MPA graduate program. Congratulations on this achievement! Please look for our admission packet in the mail.
Merit-based financial aid decisions will be rendered through a separate review process. [...]
So grad school apps are starting to go in. Scary, scary stuff. A year from now I’ll hopefully be neck deep in research, wondering why I didn’t just stay in Peace Corps another year. Still, it feels good to finally be doing it.
I had some visitors this week, PCVs from Namibia who were taking some [...]
Seriously guys, we’re now officially living in the future. I want my flying car. We were at least supposed to be going back to Jupiter by now. Instead I’m sitting in a hut without electricy or running water, playing with a cat. Not exactly what I would have guessed as a kid reading Asimov or [...]
Looks like what I saw was a satelite launch fuel dump.
From this description: “The spectacular sight which keen South African sky-watchers were privileged enough to witness during the evening of Sunday the 18th of October, from approximately 8:45 to 9:30pm, – a spectacle resembling something out of a big budget UFO movie – turned out [...]
So don’t take from this post that I’m a conspiracy buff, UFO tracker, or any of the above. I’m probably just starting to see things.
Last night I walked outside and saw a very strange phenomenon in the sky. It appeared to be a series of concentric, expanding rings, aproximently 20 degrees across (big). The rings [...]
Just a few pictures from Mozambique, now that I’m able to post them.
September 14,
For the last week and a half I have been traveling around Lesotho, taking part in various Peace Corps run projects that, to an outsider, might make it appear that we are the evil corrupters of Lesotho. That’s right… Lifeskills. (cue dramatic music in minor key).
Tales of Masturbation, Rape, and (close your ears) Condoms [...]
Back up in Bobete after time traveling, on leave, helping with training, and a seemingly unending series of events keeping me in the lowlands. It seems like too much has happened since last time I wrote a post, so I’ll try to compress it a bit:
Went on leave, for the first significant amount of time [...]
It’s been a year since we arrived in Lesotho. Half the volunteers that were here when we arrived have moved on, and others have come to take their place. At the midpoint of Peace Corps (somehow etending just doesn’t seem that likely), it’s worth a little party, and a little looking back on the year. [...]
Hey All, I seem to have left this blog sit and moulder for the last few months. My bad on that- the truth is there just hasn’t been anything I felt was interesting enough to justify its own blog post. But, after having everybody from my grandfather to my college roomate ask where I disappeared [...]
If you’re in the states, you’ll see the shooting on the news tonight.
There have already been too many deaths this month. I’ll try to post more coherently later.
Saturdays are for funerals. This was one of the first things we were told after arriving in Lesotho last June. In a culture in which funerals are such a common occurance, this is indeed an important thing to be aware of. Imagine, for a moment, living in a place where, over the last fifteen [...]
A new month, a new way of looking at work here. I’m starting to branch out as much as I can from what I’ve been working on, which I hope will help to give me more to do at my site.
I volunteered to work with a group at the end of the month, looking into [...]
… have been greatly exaggerated.
(February 20) : It’s been a long time since I updated anything here. The last month has been a little strange for me - my supervisor and a significant amount of the staff were transferred, and after a long delay Sempe’s replacement arrived this week. The delay in updating was certainly [...]
One of the new volunteers in my District has a computer with a card reader, so I was able to get these pictures off of my camera.
1) Mandela’s Cell (Robbin Island)
2) Penguins in Africa (On Robbin Island)
3) Downtown Capetown
4) Your’s Truly on Table Mountain, overlooking Capetown
5) Flower on Table Mountain Summit
6) Sunset on Table Mountain
[...]
Back from Cape Town, and about to Head back to Bobete, this time for the long stretch. I’m feeling pretty good about it, and it will be good to spend some time in the relative simplicity of life up there. After the break are my notes from the vacation.
January 1,
As New Years go, this has [...]
2009 is almost upon us, and in an hour or so I am getting on an overnight bus to Cape Town. Sitting in a bus somewhere in the African countryside should be an interesting way to pass midnight, I think.
So far, this little vacation has been good times. Seeing Bloemfontein (and South Africa) for the [...]
Back in Bobete after a long time down in Maseru for IST (in-service training). Two and a half weeks in the capital with my training group was quite an event, and while it was a lot of fun, it is nice to be back to the comparative quiet of Bobete.
Big events included:
The first installment of [...]
November 22,
Not my best week ever, but life goes on. Because of the computer catastrophe, I’m back to writing blog entries in my notebook.
Birthdays are strange things. I don’t feel any older than I did three days ago. My supervisor threw a party at the guest house with the rest of my friends from CRS [...]
My computer is no more, at least for awhile.
Yesterday it froze while I was typing, and when I tried to restart it displayed a flashing folder with question mark:
Combined with a clicking sound coming from the body of the laptop, I’m pretty sure it’s a hard drive failure. So updates are going to be a [...]
Give me a few days, and I’ll try to have a video blog up.
November 5,
I had something written for last night. A few weeks ago I sat down to write up my thoughts on the election, and what it would mean for our country and all of us. When California and Hawaii were called last night, and CNN ran the “Obama Elected President” banner, all that thinking and [...]
It’s five o’clock in the morning here, and a few of us diehards are still up watching returns come in on CNN international. The birds are chirping, Ohio was just called for Obama, we can see some sun in the sky, and this feels like a symbol of the day as a whole as far [...]
Before I dissapear for a week or so, I wanted to share this website with everyone.
So it’s the beginning of a crazy few weeks for me.
On Friday I’m traveling with my supervisor out of Bobete, and stopping for a few days to see some other volunteers. After that I’m headed to Maseru, where I will spend the night to catch the [i]six am bus[/i] to Becky’s site. And I thought [...]
A quick note:
I’m a little surprised at the direction this blog has taken. Rather than the more or less straightforward recording of events I had originally meant to write, it’s become a bit more introspective. I’m still not sure if this may be a bit too livejournalesq, but it is certainly different. [...]
And at long last, I’m back in my own house. Surrounded by pictures on the wall, a dresser, and a table and chairs. Life is good.
There was a fun moment when, about halfway through, the old roofer sat back and started laughing. After awhile he said “You know, this house [and roof] is older than [...]
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