Tag Archive: Peace Corps

“…you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference […]

To the people in California who is experiencing a major water crisis, you have my deepest sympathies. For the past three and a half weeks, I had no running water. My life turned into like those of majority of Peace Corps Volunteers in Cameroon. I’m one of the small number of volunteers who has indoor […]

In a little village, on my fourth day in Cameroon, a young man came up to me and said, “Do you have a husband?” “No,” I said. “Can I have your phone number?” “I don’t know my phone number, “ I lied. About an hour later, as I walked around the little village, my host […]

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson When I first received my invitation to Cameroon, one of my first thoughts was, “Oh my god! I’m going to really be in the ‘Hard Corps!’  I’m going where electricity […]

Today marks exactly six months since I first landed in Cameroon. I have now officially been away from the US soil and my family for the longest time ever. The Peace Corps journey continues to bring in many challenges but also wonderful joys to my life. I’m constantly reminded that choosing to quit my job in […]