steve irwin died. :'( he was an amazing ninja, definitely extraordinary full of passion and flair and genuine concern for nature, animals and the environment. he got a lot of flack for not being all scientific and instead yelling crikey and 'what a beauty' and the such, but really it was just solid proof that for him, the love of the animals came ( Read more... )

how will you ( Read more... )

sometimes i find myself saying "in ghana..."; and it catches in my throat, just the slightest.
because really its not in ghana, that people called me alice, or bouzou - its not in ghana that i had rapport with the zabarama cloth sellers,
or smelled the banku cooking on the evening stove, or watch the heat shimmer on kpembe road or meditated silently ( Read more... )

today, sarah jane comes home.

the sense of absolute relief this affords me (and by extension her, from what we got on the phone last night) is.. indescribable.

today, i'm going to clean up the ridiculous explosion of coloured cloth and trinkets that my house has become (stuff from india from my mom, stuff from ghana) and teach my mother how to ride a ( Read more... )

i am home. or in toronto anyway.
love you all lots, will be back at 22h30 on saturday.
etcetera.
apoorvaaaaaaaTRON

hello friends!

i am so excited right now. it is 18 hours until i leave! however, it isn't all joy due to the fact that i still have important EWB homework to do i have a load of clothes to yet wash...by hand (its tedious, but super fun)

i just found out what district of the northern region i'll be working in - its called the "East Gonja" region, in a ( Read more... )

and then sometimes, i hold my fist very very tight ( Read more... )

dear my darling bicycle wembembe ( Read more... )

in classic EWB fashion, we have found out some more details about our projects this summer! very exciting!
Sarah: will be in Lusaka, Zambia (the capital city) this summer, working for Technology Development and Advisory Unit (TDAU), an NGO that provides testing, designing, fabrication, training and marketing services in reference to "appropriate" ( Read more... )

interrupted to say ( Read more... )