There’s nothing better than your first swim of the season! It’s heating up around here again, and that means cooling off in the river. –JDF
In The Gambia, monsters don’t just live in children’s nightmares – they’re real.
Marching through the village, kankarangs “roar their terrible roars and gnash their terrible teeth and roll their terrible eyes and show their terrible claws” … and … clang their terrible machetes. Then, with the help of a posse of teenagers, the masquerade known as a kankarang snatches the little boys up and takes them out to the bush for circumcision.
This edition of “From the Kitchen” comes from my hut. I usually eat lunch with my host family, but cook my own breakfast and dinner….
Interior decorating is a daunting creative process no matter where you live. But if your dwelling is a modest cement structure in the middle of the bush, you have to be even more inventive.
Here’s how I turned my hut into a home. Learn from my “pro tips” and start your own transformation today.
I knew Peace Corps would be an “emotional rollercoaster,” but in all honesty, the experience would be more aptly labeled “2-year bipolar episode.”
Having my parents meet each other was a special occassion. They had all seen dozens of pictures and heard so much about each other but…
Guess what always happens when I go on vacation? Of course I have a great time, but that’s not what I was thinking. I gain…
