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Sierra Leone II: My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 2 ~ Jerry Mills
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My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 2 Jerry Mills. 8220;But to continue my narrative. I said to myself that we are all accidents of history in accidental conjunction. All a matter of perspective, yes.”. 8212;Robert Penn Warren. 8220;Mr. Livingston, you will pay me ten pounds.”. Preoccupied with damage control, my mind pressed to assess the losses: how catastrophic would be the cost of this feeble attempt to seize the day? I fought to regain my composure. “For what? The evening had begun innocently, or so I ...
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Sierra Leone II: Wilbur visits Jane and Erick
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Saturday, October 12, 2013. Wilbur visits Jane and Erick. Saturday, October 12, 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Planning for the 50th PC Anniversary in DC, September 22 - 25. Sites for Sierra Leone II PCVs, 1962-1964. Reunion Plans for Sierra Leone IV Group. Ten Minutes Reflections on Training, the Peace Corps Experience, the Reunion. My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 1 Jerry Mills. My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 2 Jerry Mills. My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 3 Jerry Mills.
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Sierra Leone II: Planning for the 50th PC Anniversary in DC, September 22 - 25
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Planning for the 50th PC Anniversary in DC, September 22 - 25. Hursday, Sept. 22. 6 pm Dinner together in the Concorde Room of the historic Hay-Adams Hotel in downtown Washington, DC Bob Hopkins has generously volunteered to fund dinner for members of the group and their significant others. The Hay-Adams is located at 16th and H Streets, NW; phone 202 638-6600. Let Char know if you intend to participate and how many will be in your party. Friday, Sept. 23. 1 pm Lunch together at. Corps . Presentation...
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Sierra Leone II: My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 1 ~ Jerry Mills
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My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 1 Jerry Mills. My Heart Is Like a Cabbage. Is an autobiographical fiction of the two years I spent in West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, a teacher of English and Science at Peninsula Secondary School in Waterloo, Sierra Leone. And what had happened to the people of that culture with whom I had shared two of the most formative years of my life? My Heart Is Like a Cabbage. 8221; It was a prompt—not, I hope, a gimmick—I often used in writing classes. Beg...And I would s...
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Sierra Leone II: My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 3 ~ Jerry Mills
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My Heart Is Like A Cabbage, Part 3 Jerry Mills. 8220;Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”. Unknown to me or anyone else in the Peace Corps, we were fast approaching a November day of “infamy”—Roosevelt’s unforgettable phrase regarding the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. World countries. Ron and I had enjoyed a subscription to Time. Set in motion a growing awareness of the catastrophic impact the juggernaut of “progress” was having on our environment. And the first ...However, as t...
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Sierra Leone II: Jerry Davis's Journal
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June-August, 1962: Training for Sierra Leone. I arrived on June 18th. Looking back on my year in the Peace Corps, I am reminded of Teddy Roosevelt’s letter to his friend Henry Cabot Lodge that spoke of his crowded hour charging up San Juan Hill. It changed Roosevelt’s life. Nobody was going to shoot at me in West Africa, but the experience would be with me for the rest of my life. February 1, 1963:. Yesterday, with English friends Jill Byrant and Ron Oliver, and Najar, a Lebanese friend, Bob Rawson, my P...
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Sierra Leone II: Happy Thanksgiving
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011. My Heart Is Like a Cabbage; another entry for the. Ten Minutes page, and a link (see under the “Links” section part way down the right hand side of the blog page) to the photos Erick took at the Ten Minutes session itself. I wish all of you a Thanksgiving of safe travel, loving friends and family, and abundant food and other blessings. Kolenten Secondary School (Jnr). Wednesday, November 23, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sites for Sierra Leone II PCVs, 1962-1964.
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Sierra Leone II: Reunion Plans for Sierra Leone IV Group
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Reunion Plans for Sierra Leone IV Group. Through a circuitous route (Kevin Lowther to George Gatewood to Anne Burdick to me) comes information about a reunion being planned by the SL IV group, with whom many of you may have lived and/or worked. I’ll pass it along, with people’s e-mail addresses, for those interested. [Thanks, Anne! Based on responses from a year ago, we have about 50 people altogether who plan to attend IF they are able. Here is the list:. Harriet Marquis and spouse. Joan Byrd and spouse.
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Sierra Leone II: Sites for Sierra Leone II PCVs, 1962-1964
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Sites for Sierra Leone II PCVs, 1962-1964. Christ the King College. Jerry Davis, David Frame, Erick Lorenz. Holy Rosary Girls School. Anne Burdick, Pat Preciado. St Andrews Secondary School. Clarence Lee, Wilbur Mellema, Bob Rawson. Catholic Teachers Training College. Paul Chantrey, David Williams. Geoff and Pat Campbell. Annie Walsh Memorial School. Bob Hopkins, Kyle Ogden. Methodist Boys High School. Prince of Wales Secondary School. Roosevelt School for Girls. Sierra Leone Grammar School. Reunion Plan...
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Sierra Leone II: Visit Ghana with Rufus as a Guide!
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Thursday, January 19, 2012. Visit Ghana with Rufus as a Guide! Pray all is well. I wish to share with you our 2012 GHANA TOUR. If you know of anyone interested, please share the news. In addition, I invite you to read and see a photo gallery of our participation in the excavation of the tomb of KARAKHAMUN in Luxor, Egypt last summer (2011) at: www.jahkente.org. Still thinking of the great time we had at the Reunion. Peace and Love to all. Thursday, January 19, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
