This is the last post  I will be posting on this blog. My Peace Corps Service has come to an end and thus it is time for my Peace Corps Blob to come to an end as well. I would like to start by thanking everyone for all the love and support they have given [...]

This is a little out of date now, but I wanted to post it nonetheless. Internet access has been shoddy at best. I will be sure and update further once I have a chance. The current political situation in Madagascar is extremely complicated and it will take years for people much smarter and with better resources [...]

I don’t really know where to start this entry. I am sure most people who read this blog have at least some idea of what is going on here in Madagascar. And if you don’t I am going to have to apologize for not taking the time at the moment to try and explain everything. [...]

I was recently invited to the New Years Party at the ASOS. The ASOS is a Malagasy NGO that works on both Health and Environment projects. They frequently work as the facilitator between foreign NGOs and the Malagasy people. My sister-in-law, Tahiry, works for the ASOS in Brickaville and that is why I was [...]

In the almost two years that I have been here in Madagascar I have had a number of Malagasy people ask my why I think that he country is so underdeveloped compared to the United States. My answer is always that there are many many reasons including but not limited to; colonialism (particularly by the [...]

As many of you know I love a good election, something about the campaigning just thrills me. I enjoy the work, love the connections made with people and don’t mind the long long hours. I think a big part of why I love campaigning is because it makes me fell like I am part of [...]

After an overwhelming response to my plea for help from you all in the United States my attempts at having a girls camp have hit many of the road blocks that are normal here in Madagascar and has yet to occur, but the girls camp is still in the works so don’t despair.   The original plan [...]

Oh lord the pressure is on. I am sitting on the coach at the Peace Corps flop house in Tana watching a movie, I have been in and out of the city for a week and I am leaving in the morning and I have yet to post anything to the internet thus I am [...]

Once a long time ago there was a man who died when his heart stopped. His family was very sad but they knew that they had to bury him so not long after he died they took him and put him in the tomb with his ancestor. Many years later his family went back to [...]

(not sure what happened last time but hopefully it actually posts this time) There I was at 1 o’clock in the afternoon in the pooring rain, covered in mud and my feet covered in blisters which my chocos continued to rub raw, but I couldn’t remove my sandals as I was walking down the railroad tracks [...]

Dear Friends and Family, Manahona! Greetings from Madagascar! Things are going petty well out here on this tropical island (though it is amazingly cold, what happened to the tropical paradise bit?) I have been in my village for just over a year now and attempted and failed at many projects. While all these failures have been [...]

Well here I am over one year into my Peace Corps Service in Madagascar, and less then a year from coming home. Reaching the one-year mark was a moment of triumph and reflection. Triumph because there were so many days and months were I was ready to throw it all in and I thought I [...]

The Island of Madagascar is full of all kinds of amazing things that are found no where else in the world; lemurs, baobab trees, and the plague. Remember that disease that ravaged Europe during the Middle Ages killing thousands every day and caused cultural stagnantation. So many people died and people were no longer able [...]

Oh lord has it been a long time since I have updated this blog, and I blame it all on Joe. My brother came to visit me for the month of May and it was an absolutely fabulous time, it just kept me busier than I usually am most months so I haven’t had the [...]