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Diaries from Dāgu: Service Interrupted
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This blog was created for a collective outlet to share our stories and experiences with anyone interested. Dāgu is the phonetical spelling for Dago, the native name for Madagascar. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. So the 2008 Environment group blog experiment is over. As some of you may have heard, Madagascar has had some political turmoil lately. The Peace Corps program there, along with all other "non-essential" US Mission staff, have been evacuated. The service of the 2008 Environment. A more centralized way ...
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Diaries from Dāgu: Coups in the News
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This blog was created for a collective outlet to share our stories and experiences with anyone interested. Dāgu is the phonetical spelling for Dago, the native name for Madagascar. Monday, October 4, 2010. Coups in the News. Cus even in Madagascar,. We'll find some shack below radar". Here's the first plot, showing web traffic and news reports for Madagascar since 2004, to give you an idea of how coverage of the movies compares to the coup. How do other coups stack up? All of a sudden, that huge spike on...
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Arborigine: May 2009
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Saturday, May 30, 2009. Stuck inside of Mali with the Madagascar blues again. Written 14th May, 2009.]. First, the bad news. Peace Corps has suspended their program in Madagascar. As a result, my service there has come to an end. In Peace Corps' official jargon, I completed my service, but really there's very little about it that feels complete. If you really want a sense of this, I direct you to blog posts. The political crisis isn't over. Recently, USAID has told the non-profits it funds to discont...
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Diaries from Dāgu: Life is Rice; Rice is Life
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This blog was created for a collective outlet to share our stories and experiences with anyone interested. Dāgu is the phonetical spelling for Dago, the native name for Madagascar. Monday, December 15, 2008. Life is Rice; Rice is Life. Most all of you know by now that rice is a cultural obsession here in Madagascar and that it is eaten by the heaping plateful at every meal. It occurred to me, however, that perhaps not all of you fully grasp what it means to eat rice so frequently here. Aside from not hav...
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Diaries from Dāgu: I miss you, stage of love!
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This blog was created for a collective outlet to share our stories and experiences with anyone interested. Dāgu is the phonetical spelling for Dago, the native name for Madagascar. Sunday, April 5, 2009. I miss you, stage of love! Dear Stage of Love,. May everyone be enjoying this first stage of their new adventure! I am minutes away from being shuttled to the airport for my flight to Tanzania, and have that nervous, excited feeling all over again (did it ever go away? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Diaries from Dāgu: Fanafody Gasy
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This blog was created for a collective outlet to share our stories and experiences with anyone interested. Dāgu is the phonetical spelling for Dago, the native name for Madagascar. Monday, January 19, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Happy New Year, Stage of Love! Mangily, Jan 09. Collectively, we are a group of Peace Corps Volunteers in Madagascar. We come from many different walks of life and are in many different parts of Madagascar. Enjoy our experience.
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Diaries from Dāgu: Vary Triathlon
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This blog was created for a collective outlet to share our stories and experiences with anyone interested. Dāgu is the phonetical spelling for Dago, the native name for Madagascar. Wednesday, December 10, 2008. And this is also where everything devolves into chaos…a sort of entropy in which everything, remarkably, settles into the right place…eventually…. The Vary (Rice) Triathlon. Leg 3 This leg of the vary triathalon is way too advanced for me – the platter prep station requires the ability to di...
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Diaries from Dāgu: This is Africa
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This blog was created for a collective outlet to share our stories and experiences with anyone interested. Dāgu is the phonetical spelling for Dago, the native name for Madagascar. Saturday, January 17, 2009. Where most people live on a dollar (or less) a day. Where houseguests include geckos, rats, and cockroaches the size of your index finger. Where you eat cassava root to feel full, even though it contains new nutrients, because you can't afford anything else. Is as common as "What is your name? This ...