I HAVE A NIECE!!

Care to know why my job rocks so hard? When we need to do training, we play games. Playworks is all about what they call "playful professionalism ( Read more... )

Last night was a prime example of why I really enjoy living in this city ( Read more... )

It's been an incredibly long time since I wrote in here, but it's late and I figured, "Why not ( Read more... )

Sometimes....when I start thinking I'm actually getting somewhere, I realize I still have a great deal more to learn. It's weird being happy and sad at the same time. I have an incredible job and spend my days having adventures and meeting interesting new people....but I'm...well....I think I'm lonely.

I went to Matt's lecture last Thursday. It was all kinds of interesting and compared biomedicine (aka western medicine) to traditional medicine (homeopathy and herbalists.) Apparently there are a sizable number of individuals who will attempt traditional medicine before going for biomeds. A lot of traditional meds involve sucking, herbal ( Read more... )

( Africa! )

My goal, while living in Africa, is to make a post every day about my adventures and the various things I learn. Since it will be a public blog whereas I usually like to monitor who gets to read this one, I have moved it to www.theknittingpirate.wordpress.com ( Read more... )

I waited too long. It appears I will not be able to do Americorps for a second year like I wanted. I was watching the dates on the americorps site waiting for a start date that wouldn't interfere with my Africa trip. I even considered cutting the Africa trip in half. I've spent the past few days calling every single business in each of the places I ( Read more... )

I still miss you, Amirah.