Today, while I did not do very much for reasons which I will soon divulge, I did learn a lot of interesting things. Interesting fact number one: You can get a yeast infection in your stomach. How do I know this you may ask yourselves? Well, as it happens I am the one on the [...]
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This past week has been a culinary treat. I was in my regional capital to get money and some work done, but this week was also the new trainees post visit week so I was able to meet many of the soon-to-be volunteers from my region as well as the savannes region. While it was [...]
I have to say that this has probably been the best week I’ve had in my village yet. Despite the normal stomache troubles which have been plaguing me for the past few days, this week has been both fun and extremely productive. Monday, school finally started so I all of my teacher friends are [...]
So for the past week or so I’ve been out of village traveling around for various reasons. I went down to Lome to book my New Year’s vacation to Morocco which will be for three weeks and I am looking forward to. After that I met with the person redesigning the SED program that I [...]
Well, I’ve been back in village for about a week now. At the end of August we had our midservice conference which was fun. It consisted of all the volunteers in country who entered service in 2010 (about 50 of us) and was about 3 days long. In addition to various classes that focused on [...]
Yesterday upon returning from a walk with my dog I came across an odd sight to see here in Togo: a puppeteer. The man himself was at least 6’4 –very large for a Togolese man in my area, the usual height probably being around me at 5’7- and sported aviator sunglasses that were too small [...]
Finally, I am back home in Kpekpleme once again. It’s really nice to be able to sit down and know where things are and not feel like I am intruding on someone else’s space or work. Stage training went well. I gave a session on One-on-One consulting skills and had my counterpart come and give [...]
It has again been awhile since I posted last, but this is because ive been super busy traveling around the country for various projects. The conference that my friend set up in the northernmost region of the country went super well. We were placed in host families and I ended up spending 3 nights staying [...]
So it’s been quite a while since my last post but it has been due to my being on vacation. Cameroon was absolutely amazing in every aspect. We started our trip by arriving to the airport at 930pm on the 31st for our 1am flight. When we got to the airport we were informed that [...]
Yesterday I was walking down the street and I saw a chicken pecking at something odd: a dead chicken. This is the first time in almost a year that I have ever seen a chicken canibalize one of its own. The next day I saw a different chicken eating half a dead mouse. I don’t [...]
Well I have officially had my weirdest Togo experience yet. I was sitting minding my own business this evening around 8pm when I received a knock on the door. After finding a translator I found out I was being offered the chance to buy a Viper (the super poisonous snake). It was dead already. She [...]
Today I was yelled at by the “sachet police” if you will. I bought a loaf of bread and was carrying it around but it was in a clear sachet and therefore visible to everyone who passed me. For some reason this is not advisable behavior even though the shape of the bread bulging through [...]
Adja words of the week (Adja-French-English): Eŋo- C’est Bon- It’s Good; Evo-C’est finir-It’s finished; Sue-kloo-l’ecole-School Let’s see here, so much has been happening recently it’s hard to keep up. So my friend B who lives in the Kara region (about 8 hrs north) visited me which was exciting. My friend in village invited us to [...]
I have finally gotten back to post after having to wait for almost a week for my rent. You see, if i had not waited and come back earlier, I would have probably been a month late and had to spend an extra 12,000F CFA on a total of 7.5 hrs of moto riding. While [...]
I believe that this month’s blog post would be aptly titled “The month of waiting” or alternately “The Month of Frustration”. Essentially, I’ve just been sitting in village reading books and waiting for people to get their end of things together. For my peace corps partnership program I am Still waiting on masons and carpenters [...]
I know, a weird sounding blog but it keeps coming up in conversations with my neighbor over the burritos or homemade tortilla chips or pizza we end up making. Despite the lack of running water or harmattan season (where the sands come down from the sahara and coat everything in a layer of dust-let me [...]
In general january has absolutely flown by. Due to the fetes (people in my village celebrated from the 31st till the 13th for some reason) getting people motivated again for work has been an effort. But the work is coming along. I have a meeting with all the school directors and priests for my trash [...]
Hey there everyone! Happy 2011! So I’m starting to write a peace corps partnership project for a group of women in my village. Peace Corps Partnership Programs are designed to help locally realize projects with foreign assistance. The project that I am in the process of writing is for a group of over 45 women [...]
So despite what I have written I’d like to say i am actually not drinking as much as it would seem. I dont drink in village, only when i happen to be around internet and therefore all my friends and other volunteers which is about once a month or so. So it is all just [...]
You heard it. I’m hydrating from a long night of drinking at 5am. Why 5am? Well thats when the roosters start and also about the only time all of togo isnt using the internet and i can post some photos. Been at post for 3 weeks and been super busy. Seen my closest neighbor about [...]
Just got back from a training In Pagala. Let me tell ya something, a 5 day training on business skills, given completely in french is both amazing and boring as all hell. Boring for reasons you may expect, great because they were speaking only french and I could follow everything that was going on. No [...]
Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving day at home! Here a large bunch of us got together and had an amazing dinner. there were about 15 different kinds of pie, turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, the works. Amazing. Also allowed gave me an excuse to get up to the middle of the country which is convenient [...]
So last night was the swear-in party. Needless to say, in a recovering mood. Yesterday found me and a bunch of friends on the beach in lome drinking beer, eating meat on a stick, and enjoying sinking our feet into the sand. Good living. Thats all you’ll get from today in this state, off to [...]
Hey all! back in the internet/connected world again which is nice. Heading down to the capital for the new volunteers’ swear in and ensuing partay. Then bringing my new neighbor back up to post. Good times. Around village the biggest news is that there may or may not be Cholera. I had warned them (the [...]
Just got back from in-service training in the middle of the country. Frankly it was amazing. Felt like summer camp where unbelievably good food was prepared for us 3 meals a day, we lived in bunks, and went out every night after games of bball, dodgeball, frisbee, and volleyball. We learned some stuff too during [...]
So it’s been over a month since I’ve posted last. Sorry about that, have been super busy at post and time is just flying by. Its hard to believe that it has been almost a 1/2 year that i’ve been in Africa for. In general, the past month has been great. I was able to [...]
Hey all, Well lucky me? I guess. I got to come down to Lome, the capital for an unexpected trip. Hadnt expected to be here for a while but alas, Togo happens. Got my puppy. Super cute, 6 weeks old. She’s a togolese shephard as I like to call her aka a melange of whatever [...]
Sorry thqt it has been so long since my last post. this is my first time out of vuillqge in a month and hence the first time i have been able to use the internet. Its been a whirlwind journey so far starting with Kennedy, the dog I inherited, and whom was a thrd generation [...]
So the next two days are the last of stage, then we head down to the capital for swear in. we were informed that we have to give a speech in our local language and on top of that, the ceremony will be broadcast countrywide on tv. so that will be interesting. After swear in [...]
So I have just returned from a week at post by myself for the most part. it was an interesting experience to say the least. The roads to my village are nonfunctional during rainstorms which being the rainy season occured on the day i tried to make it to post. we ended up stopped 6km [...]
For peoples information a level 7 signifies the worst possible diahrrea you could possibly have and has become a bit of a joke around the volunteers. while i have yet to reach such level, a few volunteers have and have actually pooped ttheir pants. lovely i know. Recently there have been strikes in the capital [...]
you know, I never had to ask why the chicken cross the road until they cross in front of your mountain bike for no reason at all. my friends andi are still trying to figure out an answerto that one. and they are EVERYWHERE. never have i seen so many chickens. I must include in [...]
So We have moved into our homestays in Tsevie. my fqmily is awesome. My host brother, Thierry, does physics on a blackboard outside everyday in preperation for his exams to get into the university. He is 17 and is the only one in the house that speaks english. I taught him a song on the ukulele and [...]
Hey there! So I have arrived in the capital of Togo, Lome. The trip took almost thirty hours from DC to Lome with what worked out to be a 10 hour layover in Paris. Me and a few of the other volunteers were actually able to take a trip into Paris for 2 hours or so [...]
So I’m posting just to get this blog thing rolling as I have gotten a lot of interest from people who want to follow my journey. I appreciate all the support that everyone has shown me during this long process. As I am not yet in country, I will not yet be posting frequently but [...]
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