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culturally.ambiguous: March 2013
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. We have been in 'hibernation' . Someone asked me this week what is the difference between hibernation and lockdown. My best response was that when we are in lockdown serious s* * is going on outside - we have to stay inside to be safe. Hibernation is more to do with monitoring the situation from a known location to see what happens. Anyway, I think that's the difference. Now Back to today's main programming. In fact, in looking for a photo, I discovered that ...
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culturally.ambiguous: August 2012
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. Where Few 'Blan' Have Passed. I could hear their voices in front of me before I could see their faces, as I marched down the small hilltop path:. Greeting each other in the common way. My Haitian team continued walking, and the group returned to their normal chit-chat. I emerged from the tall grass alongside their front garden, only to be greeted with a large hoot and holler and laughter from the family members. White people) don't pass here often. In previou...
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culturally.ambiguous: September 2012
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me. The past 3 weeks or so have been a roller coaster, to say the least. As I commented here. Before Isaac came, I was exhausted. There had been a lot happening in life, I was getting tired, emotional, and was quite close to burnout, I expect. But Isaac rejuvenated me enough to get me here to today. And today, I am exhausted again. Impatient, short with people, curt, and just need to sleep. And then this weekend happened. I had lef...
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culturally.ambiguous: Travel
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. I love to travel. I love to experience new places and new people and understand all the little intricacies that this world has. And I have been blessed to have traveled a whole lot. As such - here are articles on the places I have visited. Also,. All travel information (that is, anything labeled as travel) can be found here. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Which one are you? Aka MMMM Book Review.
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culturally.ambiguous: 2 months on
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. It has been almost 2 months since my arrival here in Nairobi. I think I am almost at the stage where I am stopping to compare everything with Haiti. At first, of course, it was an easy thing to do - both developing countries, both have struggles and challenges, both have a large expat community. Gorgeous Kenya - the Great Rift Valley. Heck, every individual is each their own. So, Kenya it turned out to be. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Things I Hate Abo...
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culturally.ambiguous: Posterity
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. Yep, that's my name right there in the middle of the page. Proud moment. Article can be found here:. Http:/ www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/kenya-election-diary/victory-without-victims-building-peace-in-kenyas-nakuru-valley/. Http:/ www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/241. 21 April 2013 at 22:07. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The world is a book and those who do not travel only read a page." - St. Augustine. View my complete profile. Comfort (not the ship).
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culturally.ambiguous: May 2013
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. So today I went out to interview some street boys who have taken part in one of our programmes. We went to one of the slums, one I had been to before, one that I knew for being quite. Rough, to say the least. I love days like these. They get me our of the office and into our programmes and into life in Kenya. I get to learn what life is like for people living in poverty here. It all goes back to the golden rule. Treat others as you want to be treated. But whe...
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culturally.ambiguous: Degrees of Separation
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. They say that there are an average of 6 degrees of separation between any individual on the planet. In fact, in looking for a photo, I discovered that social scientist Stanley Milgram (of the infamous Obedience to Authority experiment. Tested this theory as well, in what he called the small world theory. He found that between any individual and some other random individual, there is an average of 5 people in between. Hence, the 6 degrees of separation. Yes, s...
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culturally.ambiguous: April 2013
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. Yep, that's my name right there in the middle of the page. Proud moment. Article can be found here:. Http:/ www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/kenya-election-diary/victory-without-victims-building-peace-in-kenyas-nakuru-valley/. Http:/ www.goal.ie/NewsDetails/241. Comfort (not the ship). I have been lonely here in Kenya. Quite a bit actually. And that is because making friends here is tough. Tougher than anticipated; tougher than I was prepared for. And so, I get l...
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culturally.ambiguous: Comfort (not the ship)
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Aid work, travel, cultures and other musings. Comfort (not the ship). I have to admit something. Something that I have tried to hide and suppress for quite some time now. But it is time to get it out in the open. To admit. To take action against it. I have been lonely here in Kenya. Quite a bit actually. And that is because making friends here is tough. Tougher than anticipated; tougher than I was prepared for. And it's hard to get out of one's comfort zone. And it's hard to get into others. In the UK - ...