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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:32:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Peace Corps Madagascar)
This is me in my outfit for Women's Day... it would have been a more effective picture if the other women who were wearing it were in the picture but they were being shy... still not sure why I had to ...
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Far and Away

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:04:00 +0800

(Madagascar / The Eighth Continent)
Rowan's Mom here - she is not able to access internet at this point so I will pass along what I've learned during 2 recent phone conversations.Rowan has found Malagasies to be very friendly and the Pe ...
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Illiasou

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:25:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Malagasy Red)
I’ve always wondered how the king’s son spends his days. Apparently he goes fishing. I met Illiasou last weekend at the tail end of the “Water ‘N Wheels Atacora Bike Tour.” We volunteers ...
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my day.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:05:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Sojourn)
I wake daily at 5:00 am to my host sister starting a fire in the outdoor "kitchen". We do chores by candlelight as the village awakens. We eat a simple breakfast then I'm off to culture and language c ...
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The Time Has Come

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:01:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Compassionate Witness)
You all thought you could just read the blogs and sit back and relax right? No!!!!I am supposed to make a website for a great nonprofit organization I am working with. If I was ...
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arrived safely.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Sojourn)
Posted by Vanessa's Dad - Vanessa has arrived safely in Madagascar. She picked up a new cell phone today and called me and asked me to post this update. She's studying with the Peace Corps during the ...
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Life of the Library

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:00 +0800

(Madagascar / the cramersteins head south)
Much of what we do on a daily basis right now has to do with libraries. James has been busy organizing and cleaning a library at one school at another I'm sticking stickers on books to represent dif ...
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I'm sick

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:12:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Peace Corps Madagascar)
this is the chameleon that lives on my fence. I'm all kinds of sick... rash fever stomach cough you name it it's keeping me down raining on my Women's Day parade (literally)so here's a picture...
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Mama!

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:02:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Fiainako Ambanivolo Madagasikara)
Hello again friends family and anonymous readers! (if there are any of you… feel free to say hello) Well for this blog installment I bring you adventures of a different kind: adventures in pare ...
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Post 6: Up to 5 weeks in counting! It fe ...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:05:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Jo in Madagascar_00.261.34.189.0600 cell)
Things have been good here in my bustling town of Maevatanana. I’ve settled into some sort of routine which is ever changing because of people’s strange work schedules here (also known as “fota ...
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Toilet Troubles

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:38:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Katie goes to Madagascar)
I’ll start off by saying that I really like my house here. My community built me a really nice ravinala house. It’s spacious the thatched roof and cement floor keep things relatively cool and the ...
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Peace Corps Anniversary

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:36:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Peace Corps Niger/Madagascar - Oct 2009 - Dec 2011)
2011 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. There are many celebrations and events going on this year leading up to this anniversary.Here is a link to a congressional statemen ...
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Tailor

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:04:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Jessie in Mali)
In an attempt to break up a stale routine I had established back at site I varied up my greeting route and went over to the tailor for a quick “Good afternoon are you well? And your family? Child ...
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a day of quotes

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:27:00 +0800

(Madagascar / the cramersteins head south)
Things are a bit crazy in the village with ongoing water strikes in the municipality (we haven't had water in weeks...well we've had it for a few hours but I don't know that that counts and it is...or ...
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in transit.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:45:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Sojourn)
Just a quick note to say we've arrived safely in Johannesburg South Africa after a long but peaceful flight from DC. We had about an hour & a half on the ground to refuel in Dakar Senegal yesterday ...
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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:36:44 +0800

(Madagascar / Uploads from ashindelar)
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To Follow or Not to Follow?

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:40:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Out and Abouts)
This blog will no longer be updated. I will still be blogging when possible but it will be on a private page. If you would like to follow me on it and keep up with my Malagasy experience please send an e-mail to farhat.abe@gmail.com and I will invite you to it.Love and light Abe
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Here We Go....

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:49:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Manahoana (Hello) from Madagascar)
Officially leving American soil today :) and I can't wait to jump on that plane!Yesterday started a great day! Early morning I met my dear friend and lovely pledge bro - Lori Motooka. She took a 4 - h ...
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Tortillas

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:51:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Compassionate Witness)
After over four months of living my life without tortillas this lastweekend I decided enough was enough and learned how to make them. Imade the mistake of first trying to use rice flour which was a ...
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A Young Girl

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:47:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Compassionate Witness)
A young girl perhaps 14-15 years old followed me around the markettoday. Eventually I introduced myself to her and when we parted weshook hands. She had a beautiful slender face and was taking a ...
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BECAUSE I AM WHITE

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:46:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Compassionate Witness)
Until I went to Tana the capital city for my swearing in I had spentall of my time in rural Madagascar with a trained host family and at aguarded Peace Corps training site. In other words I have b ...
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SANI

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:44:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Compassionate Witness)
Whenever I hear Dead Prez "I'm a African " I think of Sani. I wishthere was a way I could help him do what he wants to do. I don'tthink he can do it without help. It isn't in ...
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jitters or lack thereof.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:43:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Sojourn)
After what seemed like a full month of packing and preparing for my African departure I finally left behind the comforts of home this Thursday. With many a tearful farewell to my family in New Hampsh ...
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Pearl Jam Chicago

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:00:19 +0800

(Madagascar / Travel Blog | Joey Eakins)
Me and my friend Doug are off to another Pearl Jam concert. This will be my 11 time seeing them I think. We left around 12007amDestination United Center. It is a long but well worth it drive to see ...
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Quick! To the volcano before we all com ...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:02:00 +0800

(Madagascar / All hail the New York Giants!)
Hello all.We're two days away from U.S. departure. Currently in the Ithaca NY area visiting family and finalizing packing it's getting down to the wire. We leave Ithaca at 7am tomorrow for DC (via ...
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travel down the road and back again....

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:32:00 +0800

(Madagascar / .thank you for being a friend.)
February 26 2010-02-26 Ahhhhhhh. Today. What a day. Let me start off with a quote ( this quote is from my language teacher while we were in a restaurant while being installed): Matsubara: Make a ...
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Packed and Heading Out

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:27:00 +0800

(Madagascar / The Eighth Continent)
...Well almost.I've spent a good part of the day corralling my stuff and stuffing it into luggage. I think I've done an all right job though I won't know if I've met the Peace Corps weight limit of ...
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Respect My Boundaries!!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:47:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Salama Madagascar!)
Call the doctors! (wait....on second thought don't do that - he'd be pretty mad at me) I think I'm suffering from a failure of my creativity systems (how does a doctor treat one for that anyway?) b ...
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This is a blog about questions people as ...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:37:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Peace Corps Madagascar)
I thought this week I might try to interest you in some questions I get about America. In general what Malagasy people know about America they learned from a movie so you can imagine why they woul ...
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Middlebury-Madagascar Connection

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:36:00 +0800

(Madagascar / The Eighth Continent)
My friend Avery pointed me to this video which interviews a Middlebury student who went to Madagascar and did some photography. The tribe he mentions photographing the Antrandroy are a poorer trib ...
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In My head at the Moment...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:55:00 +0800

(Madagascar / Manahoana (Hello) from Madagascar)
I'm going to have this song stuck in my head for a good portion of my trip. What else is going through my head :- Stress: Lots of packing and phone calls to be made. 80 lbs isn't going to be easy. - ...
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