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Banto Faros: August 2013
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Saturday, August 24, 2013. My counterparts, Baay Malick and Malick Seidou. Her well is fifty some meters in depth! A scaly chameleon friend. BeeCause training part two. Featuring the man responsible for it all, Balla! And my bed. It...
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Banto Faros: July 2013
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Friday, July 26, 2013. And then the wind blew. It's dark. (Dafa lindim.). Do you think the rain is coming? Fog nga taw mungi dikka? I said, the rain, do you think it will come? Manee, taw bi, fog nga dina ñ. But only g-d can know it?
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Banto Faros: May 2014
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Monday, May 19, 2014. Ci abyong bi, On the airplane. So we finished the meal without the accompaniment of Regina Spektor or whomever was serenading us. My service was definitely challenging. But as challenging as it was I found my t...
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Banto Faros: June 2013
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Friday, June 7, 2013. A village behind you. I'm not sure I can do this entry justice with words alone. It's one of those phenomenons you might have to experience to really grasp what emotions the words attempt to invoke. Begin my own Mo...
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Banto Faros: August 2014
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Monday, August 25, 2014. Re-adjustment is like a Microsoft Word upgrade. I didn't figure I could afford more counseling and looked up PTSD online and found that talk therapy and or drugs are the only way through it, if that's even what ...
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Banto Faros: April 2013
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Saturday, April 13, 2013. Amassing work from thin air. or rather, thin soil. Imagine, if you will, being thrown into a community and being expected to help them do great things. You’re supposed to have a counterpart. It’s not easy.
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Banto Faros: November 2013
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Development. 'A work in(g) progress'. From 19 Aug 13. I feel as if we're always just barely scratching the surface and applying bandaids to wounds failing to have the time or means at identifying the root.
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Banto Faros: March 2013
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Friday, March 8, 2013. A year ago yesterday. It's been a bumpy road in this first year but par for the course as you will. What's interesting and neat about this experience is that we're all having incredibly different ones but emot...
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Banto Faros: January 2014
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Thursday, January 30, 2014. I shiver, but not for the cold. Attention brings my small neck hairs to attention. How far is she? Did she make a kill? Could she be hungry enough to come here? What did I hope to find? Have I found it? She t...
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Banto Faros: On the other end of service
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This blog serves to capture and share my personal experience as an Environment Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa and does not reflect the thoughts, beliefs, or opinions of the United States Government, Peace Corps, other Peace Corps Volunteers or employees. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. On the other end of service. It's bittersweet. On the one hand I am ecstatic and jumping for joy inside. I made it! Local tea pot and tea glasses (attaya set, barada and cass yi). Local oil container (bidong).