Everyone is back from site visit and I’m very glad to have my house-mates back. On the whole, my trainees were really pleased with their sites and are excited to get out and get started. I’m thriled for them. They’ve got so much in front of them - two crazy years of [...]

Why is it so hard to get myself to write these days? Must be because there’s always someone around to have fun with, as opposed to life au village where it’s sometimes difficult to get through the days. Time is flying. Site announcements were earlier this week and all the trainees are now out [...]

This week was the annual Peace Corps Mauritania Health/Eco camp and the Lycee has been crawling with 5th and 6th grade girls. It’s been a hectic week. I mean, for the people that have actually been involved with it. I’ve been surfing Facebook and lying around reading. I did help with the Eco [...]

I think I previously described Oumou, my Pulaar friend in Magtalahjar, and how the first day we crossed paths in the road, she demanded that I come have lunch at her house. Pretty much every time I went over there, Oumou made me promise that I would come see her in her village this [...]

I’ve spent the last hour or so re-reading my letters on this page. I haven’t ever really gotten to do that since they’ve always been scribbled on dusty notebook paper, spotted with sweat drips, and stuffed into bizarrely stamped AirMail envelopes. Being here in-country, still a PCV, yet no longer in the village [...]

The dust has finally settled from this crazy whirlwind week. The trainees were scheduled to arrive on the afternoon of the 28th, but apparently the bus didn’t work so hot and they crawled from Nouakchott to Kaedi. You should have seen their knees when they got here. Ha! So, the other trainers [...]

So now that I have internet access, I’ll try to catch up on all that has happened in the last three months. I. April Hello and happy hot season to all! I’ve been away from Magtalahjar for three weeks and holy crap, it got hot while I was gone. Stepping out into the sun [...]

These last few months have been so busy and have gone so fast! I haven’t written home since February? March? And SO MUCH has happened since then! I have finished in Magtalahjar (yaHOO!!) and am now in Nouakchott preparing for training. I’ll eventually have DSL access down at the training [...]

Well, we’ll all have to wait in gripping suspense for the outcome of the mayorial revote because it’s time to send this puppy off across the bleeps and blips of the world wide web to you. I’m on my way to Aleg to celebrate my third thanksgiving in Africa. This time last year [...]

Oh ye social studies gods, smite me not for my transgressions! I meant to describe the municipal political campaign as it was happening! I really did! I just didn’t get around to it and now the vote is over and I’ll have to tell it from memory. So, a little background. [...]