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An Ode to 775 Days

An Ode to 775 Days

August 5, 2016
Jessica Fryman
Blog, The Gambia Files

I spent 775 days in Peace Corps The Gambia. But how do you truly measure that time when so many of the experiences can’t be explained? How do you count the moments of love, the lessons in resilience?

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Hopping islands and misadventures in Las Canarias

Hopping islands and misadventures in Las Canarias

June 4, 2016
Jessica Fryman
Blog

Both literal and metaphorical black clouds lingered over our heads during the entirety of our Canary Islands getaway. But since Mallory and I have been living in The Gambia long enough, we knew how to laugh it off and we somehow managed to enjoy the vacation we both had so badly needed.

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Feeling anything but blue in Morocco's 'blue city'

Feeling anything but blue in Morocco’s ‘blue city’

March 19, 2016
Jessica Fryman
Blog

With the Riff Mountains providing an illustrious backdrop, Chefchaouen instantly had me swooning over its 50 shades of blue. Small-town charm keeps the city humbly…

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A camel calamity in Morocco

A camel calamity in Morocco

March 16, 2016
Jessica Fryman
Blog

I pictured “majestic” – riding through the Sahara Desert atop camels on Christmas Day. It would be a real life “We Three Kings of Orient Are…

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Lost in Moroccan city life

Lost in Moroccan city life

March 12, 2016
Jessica Fryman
Blog

Morocco’s big cities, Marrakesh and Fez, left me in a dizzying daze. A seemingly endless maze of narrow streets and alleys twisted to crowded markets,…

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Monkey Madness

Monkey Madness

March 9, 2016
Jessica Fryman
Blog, The Gambia Files

This is what happens when a mother-daughter duo obsessed with monkeys gets too close to the primates. Here are only a few of the dozens of pictures…

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Welcome home to a Peace Corps family

Welcome home to a Peace Corps family

June 30, 2014
Jessica Fryman
Blog, The Gambia Files

After the flight to Brussels, more waiting and the final flight to Gambia, we arrived after nearly 36 hours of traveling. As we arrived, my nerves were replaced with pure excitement

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Just a little about me

My name is Jessica Danielle Fryman, but I also answer to Fatoumata Camara.

I know three languages, the third being a tribal tongue less than one percent of the world speaks. I like to run even though I’m not that good at it. I read a lot. And I once published a book I wrote, setting all the type by hand on an old-fashioned printing press. I’m an avid traveler and amateur photographer. I’m also a master spider-killer and possess the ability to stalk my prey without the squeamish screams of my former urban life.

I’m originally from Las Vegas, a city with more people than the entire country where I currently live. I now reside in a two-room concrete house with a tin roof and a ceiling made of rice bags. I eat with my hand out of a shared food bowl. I walk down a dirt road to fetch my water and carry it home in a bucket on my head. And yes, I even poop in a hole in the ground.

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About The Gambia


The Gambia, known as "The Smiling Coast of Africa," is the smallest country on the continent's mainland. Just 210 miles long and no more than 30 miles at its widest point, The Gambia carves out a space in Senegal on either side of the picturesque Gambia River.
Although many regional languages are spoken, the official language is English. A majority of the 1.8 million people are Muslim. About a third of the population lives below the international poverty line on less than US $1.25 per day.

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