Hi everyone!  Well, the puppies are five weeks old today.  And let me tell you, they sure are acting like puppies these days!  Escaping from their room, spreading toilet paper all over the bathroom, rolling in the mud… They are … Continue reading →

 Hey guys, we know we know, it’s been a long time since a blog post. Hopefully this will help make up for it. I am going to attach a few pictures with some captions to show what we have been … Continue reading →

Hey Guys, so I just realized that we have a blog that we are supposed to be updating…whoops.. I hope everyone is doing well. I am going to upload a few photos here that we think you all may enjoy. … Continue reading →

Hello everyone!  Well, it’s been a while since the last update, we know, but we’ve been busy okay!  Let me see, the last big post was about our travels with Mom and Dad Turner, but we’ve had a few more … Continue reading →

Hey Everyone, I hope you all enjoyed the last blog post since I doubt we will ever be able to have such a comprehensive update like that again! It was a lot of fun getting to do that though. Thanks … Continue reading →

Hi everyone!  Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’re way overdue on the blog entries, we know.  But hopefully this will make up for it a little.  We’ve got pictures and videos from the past couple of months that thanks to my mom … Continue reading →

Alright guys, this is long overdue but, finally, here is a blog post! We had the unfortunate luck to have our computer crash on us again about a week after we returned to site so have been stuck these past couple months. Couple that with our cell service not being very good in Gorongosa since [...]

Here is a picture of Jordan and I, when we went on our snorkeling trip out to the archipelago near Vilunkulos. This is me with some other volunteers on the speed boat coming back from the snorkeling trip. Left to right is Gary, A.J. me and then Dov. Take note of my bald head in [...]

Hey everyone. Things have been pretty quiet around here lately. Finally, our lives have slowed down a bit and we were granted an opportunity to spend a weekend at site and just relax. By staying at site for the weekend, we were able to hold our first successful JOMA meeting at site. We have tried [...]

Hello from Mozambique!  We hope all is well back home!  Well, Brian and I have been busy lately and a little out of touch with all of you. The cell phone service and internet connection here in Mozambique have been experiencing some major technical difficulties so we haven’t been able to email in a long [...]

Hi everyone!  Hope you’re all doing well and had a good spring break!  Brian and I are busy, but doing well also.  We spent the last week up in the city of Nampula at our in-service training event with most of the volunteers that started at the same time as us here in Mozambique.  Getting [...]

Hey guys, we don’t really have much news to tell you but have decent internet connection right now so are hoping to update the blog with some random photos that we have been wanting to put online but couldn’t. We hope you enjoy! The following 4 photos are some photos taken on our trip to Barada [...]

Well, we took advantage of our 4 day weekends we get here and took our first big trip since being in Mozambique. We went to a site called Barada to visit our friend Tim Froh. Tim was one of the first guys we met in Philly and have been great friends with him since. Tim is a graduate of [...]

Hi everyone!  Well, the smell of chalk dust is in the air!  School is officially in session here in Gorongosa!  Brian and I were lucky enough to be given the responsibility of creating the school schedule, which has left me dreaming of little color-coded schedule cards every time I close my eyes.  It’s like the ultimate Sudoku puzzle, only [...]

Hi all! This is Karen! Here is a 60 Minutes video I found on another Peace Corps blog about Gorongosa, the area where Brian & Jordan are. It is very interesting and the photos are amazing. I showed it to Brian and Jordan and they wanted me to post it for you all to see. [...]

Hi everyone!  We thought you might be interested in what the inside of our home here is like, so we snapped a few photos for you. This is our main room/dining room/kitchen.  Over on the left, the two big silver things are our water filters that we run our drinking water through after boiling it.  The kitchen area has [...]

Hi everyone!  We hope you all had a nice Christmas!  We had a great time here.  All of the volunteers from the central region came to our house to celebrate.  We had eleven people in our little house!  It was very cozy!  So cozy in fact that a few people opted to sleep outside. We’ve become very resourceful when [...]

Hi everyone!  A lot has been happening since we last had a chance to update all of you.  Here are some of the highlights: Model School: Because the students are on summer break from school right now, there isn’t a place for the volunteers to practice their new teaching skills.  So, Peace Corps arranged a “model [...]

Hi everyone! Well, we’ve officially been here in Mozambique for almost a month now and we’re nearly halfway finished with our training! Woo hoo! We’ve been planning and teaching a lot of lessons in preparation for model school in a couple of weeks. Tuesday we also had the chance to go to the orphanages in [...]

Well, we have successfully made it through three weeks in Africa and are having a great time so far.  We are staying with a host family in a town called Namaacha that has proven to be really interesting.  The     family that we are staying with is enormous.  We have a mom and an aunt that [...]

Hi!! This is Karen, a friend of Brian & Jordan’s! Before they left, Brian & Jordan gave me access to post on their blog in case they couldn’t due to lack of internet. Their internet time is going to be very limited for the next few weeks at least, but I did recieve an update [...]

Well, we have finally arrived at the point of no return!  Tomorrow morning at 3 am our time, we will board a bus to New York and then make our way to Africa.  We had the fortune of spending about 36 hours in the great town of Philadelphia.  We have been joking that the Peace [...]

Este é nosso blog!  That’s Portuguese for “This is our blog!”  I wanted to say “Welcome to our new blog”, but we haven’t learned that yet.    Brian and I are going to attempt to use this little site to share our stories and pictures from Mozambique over the next couple of years.  Should be [...]