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HIV/AIDS: Numbers don’t sugar coat the facts. 14 Mar 2010 | 10:14 am
Note: If you haven’t seen my previous blog post, I’m running a half marathon next month to help raise money for a Peace Corps Volunteer started organization Kgwale le Mollo to help send two rural Sout...
Tough Love 23 Feb 2010 | 11:25 am
Note: If you haven’t seen my previous blog post, I’m running a half marathon next month to help raise money for a Peace Corps Volunteer started organization Kgwale le Mollo to help send two rural Sout...
Give the gift that last a lifetime: Education 15 Feb 2010 | 09:34 am
Once again this year the Peace Corps South Africa community is coming together help support the Kgwale le Mollo (KLM) Foundation. KLM is a non-profit started in 2004 by two SA-11 (I’m in SA-20) Peace ...
Siyaphila 11 Feb 2010 | 09:50 am
Nelson Mandel’s said “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” And he should know, South Africa is a count...
On Window Screens 21 Jan 2010 | 11:43 am
It really is a simple invention that in hindsight seems as obvious as the wheel, but apparently it wasn’t until 1861 that the putting wire mesh over a hole in the wall became common place. While it’s ...
When is the Internet not the Internet 19 Jan 2010 | 11:44 am
Friends are often surprised to see how often I tweet or how frequently I’ll email back home. And in ways I find it amazing how I can know what’s happening in almost real time all over the world from m...
Umuntu ngaumntu ngabantu 18 Jan 2010 | 11:43 am
During training we would often hear that life in South Africa was unique because of a concept fundamental to its culture: Ubuntu. In Nguni languages (isiZulu, siSwati, isiXhosa, isiNdebele) this is mo...
To Blog or not to Blog 17 Jan 2010 | 11:54 am
Wow it’s really been a long time since I’ve written anything here. And you know what, with a few exceptions, that seems to be the a general trend within the Peace Corps community. There are tones of b...
July Trip Part 1 29 Jul 2009 | 10:39 am
This week I returned to site after my second extended trip through South Africa. Traveling in South Africa is always great fun, partly because there are so many great things to do, great (cheap!) plac...
GTOT and Confederations Cup 18 Jun 2009 | 08:51 am
I got back yesterday from a week away from site. I spent all of last week with 10 other volunteers preparing for the next group of volunteers – SA20 – to arrive late next month at what Peace Corps cal...
