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Pre Departure
Gambian Languages
In The Gambia they appear to a grip of languages. The Peace Corps has provided us language training files for downloading on to mp3 like players. Turns out all they provide down there are cassettes. Unfortunately the files provided are in something like 40 different zip files, probably because they are catering to folks without [...]
Timeline
In order to appease the Peace Corps Blogging Gods I’m going to go ahead and make a cute little timeline. It’s probably mostly wrong, but so are you. August July and August 2008 – Filled out the application, conned folks into filling out recommendation forms. August 2008 – Received fingerprint and other random forms. Filled [...]
Hello World…
So, I’m going to The Gambia. Yes, I know that I typed THE in front of Gambia. No, I’m not trying to be funny. Yes, it really has a The in front of it. Yes the The is capitilzied, no, I don’t know why. Yes, I know other countries don’t have it. Right, The France [...]