Yes. Only one more month until vacation in Spain which I am totally looking forward to. I can’t wait. Next week the new volunteers will have their site visit. I will be hanging out and helping the person in Koila Bamanan for the first few days next week.  Now I’m in Segou eating. I really came [...]

As many of you do or do not know. I took a medical evacuvacation July 11th through July 23rd. It was the most awesome trip since I’ve been a PCV. While I was fine before I left to America the US government wanted to make sure I was extra okay, because of me living in [...]

So It’s been a really long while since I’ve written but now I feel the need to.  April was In-service training and Easter which was a pretty good time. It was spent in Djoro in the mission. It was awesome. Amy and I went to Church in the morning, it was all in Bambara, so little [...]

Well. I usually say not much has happened. But wait for it wait for it. This time it’s different. Things have happened in Mali! I was in Village for about 4 weeks. I went to Segou the weekend of March 28th to say goodbye to one of the volunteers who early terminated. It was sad but [...]

Nothing super exciting has happened recently. I fixed the hanger of my house that was falling down. Now it’s not.  I have the fencing for the women’s garden coming tomorrow or sometime this week and the fish pond EWB keep sending me countless emails about the size, shape, and location of the pond. So I have [...]

Amy and I got into Segou yesterday afternoon after waiting for hours to find a ride from Djoro, despite it being market day. We hung out at the bureau for a while and then headed to the Djoliba Hotel for pizza night. What pizza? Yes. It’s expensive. 4 000 cfa, about 8 US dollars. Which [...]

        I thought I would post a couple of pictures that I thought were worthy of postcards or National Geographic magazines. This one to the right is a picture of Lassana on our way to Babugu’s Market day. It was a 15 km ride and their market didn’t even have bread.                          This is Amy and a whole [...]

  I was looking through my iPhoto pictures today and came across this one.   Sometimes I miss America.       

Dear Caroline. Here is your CD. I hope you like it. If you don’t it’s okay. You can tell me you do anyways to make me not feel bad. 1.     King of Carrot Flowers Part 1 – Neutral Milk Hotel. This song is happy and you can dance to it. Also If I could be [...]

New Years on up.   New Years I went to Bamako. It was interesting to say the least. It started out at the hotel Daphina with Amy. Amy and I spent the better half of Dec. 31 deciding if we were going to head to Bamako or not. I was kind of in a slump and really [...]

I haven’t posted in a while. Things have been going alright. Thanksgiving was spent in Sikasso and a good time was had by all. I had one of my first many coarse meals there. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and other foods for which I can’t remember now. It’s been a while, but It was amazing. [...]

I love halloween. Last year I dressed up as tetris pieces with some of the Trans-labbers (the lab in the Engineering Building where I spend 17 hours a day calculating runoff coefficients and other such things for my senior design project) It was a blast. Not only did we manage to go to the worst [...]

So I’ve successfully spent a month at site so far. A month with two trips to Segou. or America rather. In Segou we have hot water, meat sandwiches, wireless internet, and cold sodas. It’s amazing. The first month at site went well. My counterpart tends to yalayala a lot. Which is to wander aimlessly. Except [...]

It was awfully great that Amy and Kyle decided to come to my site with me. Kyle had to move out a bunch of things from his/my house he’s moving out of/I’m moving into. And Amy and I just hung out.  Unfortunately my iPod ran out of batteries within the the first 3 days. So did [...]

I Have a new address. I’m not sure if I told anyone about it.  Therese Pasichnyk, PCV BP 117 Segou, Mali West Africa       

I’m in Segou right now debating if it’s a good idea or not to travel to san for the next two days. It’s someones birthday but I have a little konoboli which translates into stomach running. I think I’ll be fine though. I’m pretty sure this evening has potential to be as excellent as the [...]

The last month has been insane but has flown by at the same time.  The Moribob (Moribabugu) crew was definitely hard to say goodbye too. Sam, Mark, Jamie, Susan, Erin, Kim, and Chris. We had some great times.  Some times include: Jamie being there when I fell inside the well and she had to walk me all the way [...]

So. We got back to Tubaniso yesterday. The past week went well. My host mom stopped laughing at me and we actually had a conversation, sort of. I bought some awesome airplane fabric that I got made into a hip dress outfit. I’ll have to post pictures later. My father saw my outfit and called it [...]

So I’m trying to post pictures but the internet is slow. The bad news is my toenail is going to fall off soon and I fell into a 4 foot well and sprained my ankle yesterday. Things are pretty okay with those now. We got our site visits. I’m in the Segou region in a town [...]