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life these days

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... life post-trip. basically, it stinks. i spent the past month visiting the most gorgeous, luxurious parts of central and northern madagascar, eating gourmet food, hugging my family, and speaking in english about life in the US. it was wonderful, and i ...

moving in tomorrow!!!

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

hello everyone! I'm in my banking town for a couple of days, shopping and doing business=type stuff, before moving to my site (tomorrow!) (again, if you want to know the names of these places and don't yet, email my mom at sfgordon93@hotmail.com) ...

do i know you?

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... sara sent a cb radio message from the gendarmes at sara*s site to those at my site, saying that they*d come to the banking town yesterday. the chief gendarme hunted me down to deliver the message personally and was so glowingly proud to be dispensing his ...

so much to say

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... with natasha's family to find our friend rachel, a young american here on a fulbright who we'd met in our banking town a couple of weeks earlier, sitting outside. besides being completely awesome herself, she brought her digital-photo compatible laptop ...

i'm still alive!

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... from all over the central part of the country will come to the hotel that serves as unofficial PC headquarters in my banking town to watch CNN, eat pizza, and drink enough beer to either celebrate appropriately or drown our sorrows. Finally, two ...

sighs of relief/news/easter

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... a description of our trips to and from fran's banking town written by sara for her travelogue: The drive from my banking town to Fran's is absolutely stunning -- broad landscapes of stark mountains, rice fields, woods and rivers blending quickly but ...

ho hum

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... 3 days in bed!! The only other news is that the next time I*ll be back is on my way to visit my friend Fran in her banking town, which is really exciting!! I*ll stay in my banking town the night of March 8, then head to hers, so be sure to write lots ...

the times, they are a-changin'

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... baby (under 8 pounds at 7 months = the size of a 2=month=old) by paying for a trip to a specialist in my banking town and medicine. i wrote an essay about these experiences for a new peace corps development newsletter here in madagascar and will append ...

swearing=in/installation photos

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

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some photos from the end of my time with my host family, the last couple days at the mantasoa training center, the swearing=in ceremony, and moving sarah, caitlin, and me into our ...

What do you do over there?

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... health education and communication skills, and Malagasy language and culture. Since January of 2004, I have been working in a small town in central Madagascar, which is home to several thousand people and the district seat for 100,000 more. I am the ...

australia and new zealand photos

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

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... Osborne's My So-Called Life-esque teen drama and actually enjoyed it. On the Sydney-Mauritius flight, I'd noticed a young man wearing a Madagascar tee-shirt and made friends with him and his fianc�e, who both work in Tana; they had the same layover, so ...

first 2 weeks at site

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

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... the only kind of movie without tons of sex or violence that would draw a big crowd here. I've also seen Matrix 3 advertised in my banking town, so maybe it will come to my site. More in 2 weeks! Keep your letters coming - Tuesday, mail day, is the ...

the waiting game plus tsunami

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... in getting involved and wants Peace Corps to buy them a silk-spinning machine (the guy's been using a machine in my banking town, 25 k away.) Most of my counterpart's money-making schemes are absurd - she wanted Peace Corps to build her organization a ...

photos!!!

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... caitlin and sara surprised me by coming to my town. yes the cyclone's over (more on that later) and they made it to the banking town, then they came to get me, hurrah ! So now i'm back for another couple of days, really happy and not lonely this time, ...

dogs and doggedness

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

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... felt justified.) i may have said this before, but once during training we asked the director of peace corps health in madagascar why they bothered having us come instead of spending the money to train malagasy doctors and nurses. the response was that ...

My pousse-pousse

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

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So I am now the proud, if temporary, owner of a pousse-pousse, a Malagasy rickshaw. I became friends with a man in my banking town, Fidele, who has been pulling a pousse-pousse for the past 20 years. He has a very high level of education for a poor ...

heading to the beach!

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... were upset enough about my descriptions of easter celebrations on their own), or email me directly. thanks. anyway, i*m in my banking town for another malagasy lesson with my fantastic new tutor (recommended by my fulbright friend rachel), who was ...

holidaze

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... next two 'holidays' were a lot better. My birthday was a few days after the election; I spent the night before it in my banking town with my Malagasy boyfriend and American friend Rachel (not Peace Corps but on a Fulbright), and the night of it in Tana, ...

girls, AIDS, and tupperware

A travel blog entry by jessicagordon

... Other volunteers in my area and I are now talking about putting together a local girls' camp for the fall. Friends in my banking town and I are also organizing an 'AIDS awareness night' at the nightclub at the hotel where we stay; Malagasy staff of ...

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life these days

moving in tomorrow!!!

do i know you?

so much to say

i'm still alive!

sighs of relief/news/easter

ho hum

the times, they are a-changin'

swearing=in/installation photos

What do you do over there?

australia and new zealand photos

first 2 weeks at site

the waiting game plus tsunami

photos!!!

dogs and doggedness

My pousse-pousse

heading to the beach!

holidaze

girls, AIDS, and tupperware