Category Archive: Peace Corps

A few weeks ago, I posted a status on Facebook asking for ideas on how to wash vegetables well due to getting stomach pains and diarrhea in spite of having regularly disinfected the vegetables.   I was appalled when people tried to give me unauthorized medical diagnosis such as IBS, food sensitivity, and sensitivity to […]

About a year ago, shortly after I started my Peace Corps service, I learned through Facebook that two of my high school classmates, Jane and Chenoa, were about to take off to Africa to serve in the Peace Corps too.  They both applied to join the Peace Corps without knowing that they both had applied […]

This past week, I was in Yaounde not to only see my love, Alex, who I had not seen in two months, but also his mom, Judy, who traveled from the US to Cameroon to get a taste of our life in Cameroon.  Seeing Alex and his mom reunite for the first time in a […]

Last week, I visited four more homes for malaria evaluation.  I visited a home of a woman who became disabled from crashing into a plank which cut her leg severely.  Chantel, a member of Northwest Association of Women with Disabilities, never had it fixed properly and so, she struggles to walk and is often in pain. […]

“Don’t tell me the sky’s limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt Shortly before I departed for Cameroon a year ago, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer said to me, “Let your Peace Corps service surprise you. Don’t set up any expectations.” I spent many hours reading blogs written by Peace Corps […]