This morning as I was sitting at my computer in my house catching up with people, I started hearing the students outside running around. In the morning, students are on duty, which basically means keeping the compound nice and clean. Once a week for one section, duty is cutting the grass of the big field [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 26, 2009
Nairobi
Being on medical visit means that I get to be spending all my time in Kenya’s largest city, the shining star of East Africa, Nairobi. I will not bore anybody with the details of this city and its history, but keep this article deliciously subjective as I tear into the bits and pieces of the [...]
October 18, 2009
One Step Further
What if we continue with the web portal idea for web design, and make it bigger, expand it. The web design portal serves a very specific purpose: it connects people who need to get their information out (the CBOs and NGOs) to the people who can do that (the local web designers and developers), which [...]
October 17, 2009
The Developing Web
Below is an idea I posted to the development-ideas website Africa Rural Connect, hosted as part of the Peace Corps Connect program. If anyone wants to run with it, feel free! I don’t currently have the time, but would also never want to hinder the development of an idea which I think could help a [...]
October 16, 2009
A More Light-Hearted Entry
I thought I would write a more light-hearted entry from my past two. And I haven’t gotten to use a list in a while. Here’s a compare and contrast of my life in the States to my life in Kenya:
I have running water… it comes from a magically invisible catchment tank somewhere and when that [...]
October 15, 2009
A Personal Rebuttal To My Own Rant
This is why I am a bad blogger. I cannot write something without feeling afterwards that what I’ve written is not the truth, is not honesty. Especially after I see the responses it illicits from random readers of my blog. I don’t want the random readers to stop coming to my blog, I enjoy the [...]
October 13, 2009
An Unexpected Stressor
When I joined Peace Corps, I did so understanding that I was joining a US Government Agency and being a taxpayer, was expecting that like all US Government Agencies it would be administered with proper oversight to ensure that the money being put into the agency was being properly utilized. I am not one [...]
October 4, 2009
Lastly, a Photo Update
Sorry for the mad rush of entries today, but I like keeping them separate based on content. I just thought I would point everyone over to my Photo Blog link at the right. I know I haven’t really updated the Flickr page since, oh, April or May so I dumped about 20 new photos up [...]
October 4, 2009
I Miss… #4
The people around here not from New England don’t get. They secretly mock me. I try to explain, they say they understand based on some broader concept of simply missing that which we love, but they don’t understand the magic of it. I miss Fall. That’s right. I am not even going to call it [...]
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