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is it spring for real?

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:24:37 +0800

(Togo / Travel Tips)
I walked the two miles home from work today came in opened the windows got down to my unders and lay on top of the bed with the blinds open for 15 minutes. So nice (3rd and top floor apartment lit ...
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Quoi?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:45:00 +0800

(Togo / The Things We Know)
Parfois je ne sais meme pas quoi dire. Vous qui savez le francais je vous demande pardon pour la manque d'accents. Les claviers anglais ni l'internet ne me permettent pas m'exprimer en cette lang ...
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New England Boiled Dinner: Corned beef ...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:35:38 +0800

(Togo / Gary S Collins's Photo Gallery)
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New England Boiled Dinner: corned beef.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:34:38 +0800

(Togo / Gary S Collins's Photo Gallery)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:34:03 +0800

(Togo / Gary S Collins's Photo Gallery)
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T.I.T

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:34:00 +0800

(Togo / Just a Representative of the Midwest)
Fuck
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Untitled

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:25:00 +0800

(Togo / Life was Calling, I went to Togo...)
Hello my dearest Blog Followers! I hope you are all doing very well. I am doing well too. Just bored…things have really slowed down here because Togo is holding its presidential elections. PCVs ...
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Romaine Brooks - new art love

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:37:00 +0800

(Togo / C'est si bon)
Walking around DC with RY on Sunday we stumbled into the American Craft Museum. Amazing quirky selection of folk art portraiture sculpture and the like. I fell in love with an artist I had never heard of: Romaine Brooks.
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Flag Day pic

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0800

(Togo / C'est si bon)
Just got the official picture. I am pretty happy about Morocco!
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Keeping an eye on Thursday

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:59:00 +0800

(Togo / C'est si bon)
Courage to Togo. I am there with you in spirit.Elections on Thursday
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l'education des garcons

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:06:00 +0800

(Togo / reportingfromTogo)
Here is an article that I recently submitted to be published in our intra peace corps publication 'Et la Sante' (and health). Though I am not sure yet if it will be accepted. It is essentially a ref ...
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Small shrimp sauteed in olive oil with p ...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:23:47 +0800

(Togo / Gary S Collins's Photo Gallery)
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Untitled

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:55:00 +0800

(Togo / A Bean in Africa)
Hey everybody! Hope you all are doing well. I thought Id write one last time before I go on standfast which starts tomorrow. I came up to atakpame for the day to do last minute shopping and banking s ...
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traveling

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:41:00 +0800

(Togo / My Three Acres)
The bush taxi had fifteen places available. I got to the station in Sokode bought my ticket to Bassar fought off a few relentless vendors and a fou who kept insisting that I take him back to Amer ...
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i get it

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:22:00 +0800

(Togo / Where The Wild Things Are...)
i really do. I dont want you to think for a second that i dont understand whats happening here in pretoria. its another oxford. if there is anything that i understand its the heartbreak of leaving ...
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Untitled

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:08:00 +0800

(Togo / One for the Kaiser)
Election Time It’s election time in Togo! Unfortunately I don’t think I’m allowed to talk about it or offer opinions or even make jokes. It’s really too bad because there’s nothing funni ...
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Bonne Anne 2007

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:24:15 +0800

(Togo / Travel Blog | stevo92983)
Happy New Year everyone I'm looking forward to a healthy and prosperous 2007 and quite possibly my first full year in AfricaSo what's new here you ask Not much except that I realized I've been writi ...
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Sweatin' a bit

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:38:00 +0800

(Togo / Livin' It In Togo)
Phew the heat is really starting to kick in! Not sure whether or not my watch’s thermometer is trustworthy or not but if it is the temperatures have been getting as high as 105 F in the early afte ...
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A lean and hungry look

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:28:00 +0800

(Togo / C'est si bon)
So I know getting a dog is not a good idea for me but. . . that was before I saw Caesar.If anyone knows me from the Baxter era (may he rest in peace) I am a sucker for dogs with...problems. I think ...
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Library project fully funded!

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:53:42 +0800

(Togo / Lou and Ilona in Peace Corps Togo)
Our library project is now fully funded! The outpouring of support we have received from friends family and even complete strangers who simply believed in the project has been overwhelming. To eve ...
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Current School Photos

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:19:00 +0800

(Togo / This Must Be The Place: Grant's Togo Blog)
Please read my last post so you know why I am sending you these photos. These are several of the current "before" photos of the primary and secondary school buildings in my village. The first two ar ...
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the surgery

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:30:00 +0800

(Togo / Where The Wild Things Are...)
here is an update of my most recent days here in South Africa.doctor: its time to wake up olgame: doc you have beautiful eyesdoctor: thank you. *to the nurses* she is clearly high.me: doc i dont l ...
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hey! surpriiiiiise!

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:45:00 +0800

(Togo / Where The Wild Things Are...)
HURRAH!i survived! but im on hold in heading back to togo because of the elections. apparently i might have to stay here for standfast (15 days). I mean shit. if i have to stay in south africa in perfect health because of some political reason...im down for it!
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she's back!

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:39:00 +0800

(Togo / Wake Me Up Before You Togo)
ck!Hello everyone!! My sincere apologies for not updating my blog since December. I will try my best to sum up the last two and a half months without boring you all to tears.So December started off ki ...
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Reconciling cultures and post-Peace Corp ...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:47:00 +0800

(Togo / Togo West Africa)
ruches - beehivesOriginally uploaded by parisdelhiReconciling life in Togo and life in the US hasn't been fun. Contrary to what one would think given how the whole world is trying to train Africa out ...
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ruches - beehives

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:23:55 +0800

(Togo / Uploads from parisdelhi)
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Pictures from Training

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:48:00 +0800

(Togo / Chingu's Rehab)
This is how it started. First he was actually nice for a little bit but he is not a fan of small dogs. They just look like prey to him. Although he was at least nice in the beginning ...
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Picked Up

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:05:00 +0800

(Togo / Chingu's Rehab)
So Chingu amazes me and he really just rocks my socks off. Sometimes being unemployed is no good and some might say I have an unhealthy obsession with my dog and its true I do often prefer to be ...
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School Project

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:08:00 +0800

(Togo / This Must Be The Place: Grant's Togo Blog)
Dear Readers When I was home for the holidays some people I talked to expressed interest in helping me financially if I were to do a large project during my second year of service. With that I am o ...
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a moment to think

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:42:00 +0800

(Togo / Where The Wild Things Are...)
am i just doomed to think of the worst case scenarios? for real. because tomorrow i go into surgery. pretty similar to my last and only other surgery ive ever had. notice how im not even capitaliz ...
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Les images

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:59:00 +0800

(Togo / reportingfromTogo)
In case any of you were wondering what a gourd of millet beer and the basis of our civilization looks like this is it. Sorry I don't know how to rotate the image. Someone wanna help out with that ...
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Car Shopping!

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:07:00 +0800

(Togo / C'est si bon)
So if it ain't this: It's going to have to be this:This: Or this:Though I've always wanted of of these (in orange): Question is do I wait 'til I get to Morocco or try and find one now?
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Dispensaire

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:39:00 +0800

(Togo / Traveling Torcicollo)
Dispensaire = rural health center.Here is what the dispensaire chez moi is like:Rooms:2 Get well/rest roomsBirth roomBandaging roomPre-natal consult roomGeneral consult roomSocial affairs officePharma ...
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The Curious Case Of Olga In South Africa

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:33:00 +0800

(Togo / Where The Wild Things Are...)
I believe in take-out food.Allow me a moment to explain this situation. The world of Peace Corps is divided into three worlds: those that live in a regional capital (or close to one) those that live ...
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Untitled

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:33:00 +0800

(Togo / the scenic route)
This will be a long and likely scattered update. But before I say anything else I need to acknowledge that my sister is a rockstar. She is the one to thank for the pictures posted on the blog and on ...
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