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The Trevor (Book) Report

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:34:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
After noticing the huge imbalance in the book roster (at left) Trevor complained that it looks like he doesn't read at least compared to me.Let it be known that Trevor does read. Every day! However ...
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Jazzy

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

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Trevor was in heaven yesterday: he got to hang out with the Smithsonian's curator of American music (and fellow jazz nut) while interviewing him for a piece the U.S. Embassy will send to Zambian radio ...
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Strangers

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:32:11 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
In Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up Norman Fischer quotes Rabbi Barukh's commentary on the 119th Psalm ("I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not thy commandments from me").Bar ...
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Mail part two

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Over the last two years we have also been continuously impressed by the Tanya and Burkemper greeting machines. Despite having to spend triple on international postage these aunts cousins and ex-ste ...
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Short Shout Out

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:49:00 +0800

(Zambia / IM IN THE CORPS)
All you other people ignore this post. This is direct communication with a future visitor.Yo Hceilerts. Email me at brittyokc@yahoo.com. I'll be more than happy to talk up my So Pro people.-Lweendo
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Mail in retrospect

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:17:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
While we've been in Zambia mail has become much more than just mail. It's been a transformative experience for us two people who hate asking for help who were suddenly forced to rely on the kindness ...
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Nshima maker

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:58:00 +0800

(Zambia / L.I.F.E. & Courtney in Zambia)
I made nshima today (with the help of my sisters of course). Its not a difficult process more of a timing thing... Adding mealy meal (ground maize) to boiling water and stirring. I also roasted some ...
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Awash

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:56:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Chipata recently paved a road leading up to the market. The smooth new tarmac is framed by deep drainage ditches on either side.As Trevor and I walked down the newly paved street the other day we not ...
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Day In Lusaka

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:29:00 +0800

(Zambia / Up the Zambezi River Without A Paddle)
Today we got the opportunity to view from afar the parliament of Zambia. It's a pretty sweet building that is built almost entirely of copper on the outside! We actually drove by quite a few historica ...
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We have arrived

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:04:00 +0800

(Zambia / Journey to Zambia)
After thoughts on arrival and subsequent journeying- The flight was long but in retrospect went by very quickly like everything else seems to be going. It has been more than two weeks and it feels ...
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Untitled

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0800

(Zambia / Landlocked on a Plateau in Africa)
Hello everyone! Mwashabukeni mukwai! I can't talk long I am at an internet cafe and there is a long line of people waiting to take my spot. Just wanted you all to know that I'm alive! I've been s ...
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Things you learn to do yourself in Zambi ...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:08:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Home haircut.My hair was really getting on my nerves (last trim was in December back in America) so after way too much coffee I hunkered down with the sharp little scissors and went for it.Seems like ...
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Disaster Island (waka waka)

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:05:15 +0800

(Zambia / Americana Expat)
I am pieced together with tinsel and foam; I drink black water so that I might be fortified. I stand for strong coffee and decency and rectitude.It’s been well over a month since I’ve put anything ...
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Carrieing On In Zambia: Part 2 of 2

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:00:40 +0800

(Zambia / YouTube)
Author: carrie307307 Keywords: Added: March 5 2010
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Carrieing On In Zambia: Part 1 of 2

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:36:33 +0800

(Zambia / YouTube)
Author: carrie307307 Keywords: Added: March 5 2010
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Its good to be back

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:19:00 +0800

(Zambia / Zambia?? Who goes to Zambia...?)
Ok so I am going to try and sum up the past two weeks as best as I can. So I met the other incoming 48 peace corps zambia in Philly on Feb 15th. We were there for about 36 hours for some preliminary p ...
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Oh I so made it

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:22:00 +0800

(Zambia / Zambia?? Who goes to Zambia...?)
Hey so I am alive and oh so well in zambia. Its been a crazy almost three weeks but so great. Ive got to get to my training now and promise to give a real update soon
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(Don't) Call me

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:38:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Detail-oriented readers may have noticed that my cell number has disappeared from the blog.This is because I started getting Zam-paged every 15 minutes starting Tuesday afternoon. (Zam-paging is when ...
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Weaving

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:48:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
When I was home in December my friend Gennie (who happens to be the roving art teacher for my official Peace Corps school-match partner class of third graders) gave me a tutorial on a simple finger-w ...
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Fresh air

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:44:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
I spent 10 hours driving around a small patch of Eastern Province checking on houses that will soon be occupied by volunteers who are currently in training. While I do not enjoy missing lunch and bump ...
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Pictures

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:06:00 +0800

(Zambia / Peace Corps Adventures with Marie and Bob)
I know a lot of you have been waiting to see some pictures. You can check out all of our photos here. http://s880.photobucket.com/home /mrsatherThere will be plenty more to follow.
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The Feb Funk

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:40:00 +0800

(Zambia / IM IN THE CORPS)
For a few years now I have fallen victim to the February Funk. It seems unfair to have an entire month of bad luck but with how well the other 11 months always go I guess I deserve it. I know I certa ...
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Don't stop til you get enough

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:22:00 +0800

(Zambia / Joe In Zambia)
I'm not exactly sure what this title is supposed to mean but its from a song and I am not stopping my service. I have about a month to go before my 2 year commitment expires but I've applied and be ...
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Over it

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:08:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
While we were buying house supplies in the down shops this morning a guy came up to the truck pretending there was some problem with the tire. Meanwhile his friend grabbed Trevor's bag off the seat ...
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Lost in a memory

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:23:00 +0800

(Zambia / From the Fetus of Africa)
Happy New Year! And what better way to start the new year than to write a blog...remember the flexibility of time here..in fact I'm probably still early. I started writing this blog entry in January. ...
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Start of a New Year

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:22:00 +0800

(Zambia / Trevor vs. Wild: Peace Corps Zambia)
Hello everyone it has been a while since I have updated this blog and I would like to insert a great excuse here → _________ but I don’t have one. So let’s move onto a recap of what has been h ...
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hey there

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:26:00 +0800

(Zambia / If you want to sing out, Sing out)
I tried my hardest to prepare for all of the different elements and challenges that I assumed I would face while being a Peace Corps Volunteer; and to be perfectly honest and not so humble so far I ...
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The Wonderful Smell of Africa!

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:43:00 +0800

(Zambia / Up the Zambezi River Without A Paddle)
Want to know what "the real Africa" smells like? Well I'll try to tell you but you'll have to come visit me to truly know! It smells like charcoal roasting in a brazier for cooking. It is a wonderful ...
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Post bus

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:17:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
A volunteer who was traveling upcountry from Lusaka gave me some terrible news: A Postbus overturned on the Great East Road when the driver was speeding and lost control. Four people were killed. And the mail went everywhere in the rain.Sigh.
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Wish List

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:40:00 +0800

(Zambia / By Love, For Glory!)
Just a few items that would be really nice to have before heading back to Uganda!Laptop – after various attempts to fix my dying computer the consensus is a new one is needed. Since I need a compu ...
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Ick.

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:22:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
More reasons you don't want to go to a Zambian hospital: After smashing a cockroach on the wall I sat down with the sick Volunteer. The only decoration in the room was a poster illustrating a variety ...
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Training

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:39:00 +0800

(Zambia / L.I.F.E. & Courtney in Zambia)
I am sitting under a mosquito net sweating and trying to figure out my new nokia africa internet phone. Met my host family today: 4 brothers 3 sisters mom dad grandpa 2 grandkids and a mess of a ...
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Untitled

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:26:58 +0800

(Zambia / Life in Zambia)
I'm still in Lusaka for now but I've been cleared to go back and there is a PC vehicle going tomorrow that I was told I could get a ride with. I got approval from several people in PC but I just ta ...
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Details

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:38:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Because I've dropped my phone so often lately the face got so scuffed up I could no longer read text messages.Luckily every other tuck shop in Chipata sells cell phone accessories so for 10 pin I w ...
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Bawk bawk

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:08:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Regular readers will recall that Trevor's birthday lunch last week featured the house rooster.This week Mr. Ngoma decided we needed a rooster after all if we want chicks instead of just eggs. Accord ...
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Quick Tour of My house...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:53:56 +0800

(Zambia / The Chronicles of Zambia)
One Year In Zambia!!!So now that I have reached my one year mark in Zambia i thought some of you would like a photographic tour of the "hut" I've made a home... : Not much too it but this is where I ...
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Zanzibar Photo Journal (Chris' first solo post!)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:34:37 +0800

(Zambia / The Bush Path Less Traveled By)
Well here we are...my solo debut on TBPLTB. I thought that since Nikki has the text niche rather expertly occupied perhaps I would describe our recent trip to Zanzibar (a small island off the ...
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Jambo ZANZIBAR

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:34:08 +0800

(Zambia / The Bush Path Less Traveled By)
Sorry for the discombobulation of these two posts; Chris is working on the pictures and I am working on the words on adjacent computers simultaneously. So we took a Tazara train from Kasama (roughly ...
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Market

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:37:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
One thing I will miss about Chipata is strolling down to the vegetable market (called the Saturday market but open every day) to fill a bag with healthy deliciousness for practically nothing. Today I ...
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New Address: PO Box 410374 Kasama

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:33:00 +0800

(Zambia / Peace Corps-Zambia)
I have decided to move my snail mail up to Kasama: here we have a Peace Corps house where I can stay and the post office is easier to get in and out.(Long story about lack of queues in Mpika)&nb ...
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Zanzibar Tanzinia

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:23:00 +0800

(Zambia / Peace Corps-Zambia)
I have just returned from 8 days vacation in Tanzania. After our train ride to Dar Es Salaam one of the 20 Peace Corps Volunteers from Zambia negotiated a good price on a bus to take us to the ...
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Tazara

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0800

(Zambia / Peace Corps-Zambia)
At midnight February 9th 3 young Peace Corps Volunteers from my intake and I began our adventure on the Tanzanian-Zambian Railway (TaZaRa). Arriving at the station in a taxi we carried our bac ...
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Mango Season: The Good The Bad and The Messy

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:47:00 +0800

(Zambia / Arianna in Zambia)
Well rainy season is well underway in the Mwasemphangwe area and the land is lush and green the crops are growing visibly taller everyday the villagers are busy in the fields and everything I own i ...
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Rain rain

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:46:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Rainy season has finally quit dithering around and moved fully into/ onto Eastern Province. The roads are soupy the skies are gloomy and everything is moist. I arrived home to find cloth covered in ...
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harrassment

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:57:57 +0800

(Zambia / Life in Zambia)
Harrassment is a constant here in Zambia. As a white person here you are life a fish in a fishbowl you're entire life is for others to watch and there is almost no privacy except if you hide in your ...
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Home at last

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:17:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
After leaving lusaka at 645 two cruisers one taxi where a sweaty guysat on half the front bucket seat with me and walking two miles homevia richard's place only to find he'd gone to malawi ...
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The To Do List - 2/20/10

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:18:00 +0800

(Zambia / By Love, For Glory!)
Ever since my time in Zambia in 2006 I have NOT been a person of To Do lists. WHY? If you want to do it just do it. And if it doesn't get done life will go on. Tomorrow the sun will still come up ...
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You know you live in a developing country when…

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:48:14 +0800

(Zambia / Working for Justice)
I’m taking advantage of a quick moment to access internet and thought I’d write some totally true anecdotes about transportation here. Anecdotes I honestly wouldn’t trade for the wor ...
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Sauti Za Busara & Zanzibar

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:06:00 +0800

(Zambia / Explore | Experience | Exist)
I’ve officially been living in Africa as of one year ago today. To celebrate I’ve spent the past week and a half on a trip with friends many of them from my intake to celebrate this wonderful ann ...
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Happy!

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:59:00 +0800

(Zambia / Travels with Trevor)
Today marks the start of the short window each year when Trevor and I are the same age.Yes it's my man's birthday and thinking about his special day has me thinking about how lucky I am to spend all ...
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