Archive for August, 2005
what I do every day
The governmental agency where I work has buses for their employees. And so, at 7:00 in the morning, I walk over to the neighborhood shopping center and wait for a yellow school bus to collect me (and other ministry employees). Unfortunately I have no witty comments to accompany this; I actually think it is funny […]
Posted by Marie on August 30th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »trip to the campo
In Zimbabwe, the word for “way out there, in the boondocks” was the bush. For example, I would tell white Zimbabweans that I met that I lived in the bush, and their eyes would widen. I liked the bush, that’s what we did Peace Corps for was to live in the bush with […]
Posted by Marie on August 28th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »some books I am reading
I will not have a television during these two years, if I can help it. It is certainly possible to have one, plus to have cable for a nominal fee, but I don’t want to spend the money and I just think it is better not to have one. So I’m planning on […]
Posted by Marie on August 25th, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »first day on the job
Today was definitely an ‘up’ day. Here are some reasons:
1. I am no longer living in a youth hostel. I have a room of my own, even though it is temporary.2. I started my job today and at said job, I spoke in Spanish, all day. People actually understood what I was saying.3. It looks […]
game update
breakfast: yogurt and granola: less than $1lunch: paid for my new boss (she’s great): free (I’m not proud)dinner: bread, avacado, and an apple: less than $1
I won today!
games
I like to play games in my life; it makes things more interesting. For example, when my friend Julia and I were in Kenya, we played the language game with the local people in the village we visited. The language was close enough to the language we learned in Zimbabwe that we could pick things […]
Posted by Marie on August 21st, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »my counterpart
Without divulging too many details, I think that I will absolutely love my job. When I was here in the capital for our ’site visit’ a few weeks ago, I met with a higher-level manager in the Ministry. Like I said in a previous post, we spent about an hour talking (in Spanish) […]
Posted by Marie on August 21st, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »PCV again
I have a picture of myself and my PC group in Zimbabwe at the country director’s house, next to his pool in the back yard, all of us in shorts and tshirts, some of us with a beer in our hands, swearing in for two years of Peace Corps service. I don’t know if policy […]
Posted by Marie on August 21st, 2005 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »a place to live
I have finally found a place to live for the next month. I have known for a while that I will be taking over the lease of an apartment in the capital in the middle of September. Another volunteer will be leaving so I will take over her lease but she won’t be leaving for […]
Posted by Marie on August 21st, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »home is where your stuff is
The first time I was in Peace Corps, when we were in this process of moving around from training to our home for the next two years, there were a few points when we didn’t really have a place to ‘live’. At one point during our travels, someone said she couldn’t wait to get […]
Posted by Marie on August 16th, 2005 under Uncategorized | Comment now »
- ceiling fan, and baby exercises
- baby competition
- z’s first concert
- yay obama
- my lame halloween costume
- Our little social … human
- I guess time really is money
- starting and stopping work
- talking about breasts
- fresh out of the oven
- my life as a stay-at-home mom
- updated pictures on flickr
- but I do believe in miracles
- our little o negative baby
- blamers and the nuclear family
- his feet look like mine
- pictures on flickr
- new baby in the house
- We just joined the “buy more sh&t” club
- tomato sandwiches
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