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Counterinsurgency versus ‘international development work’

March 31, 2011 Uncategorized

TOLO News: Why Not Incentive for Peace in Daikundi? This is an interesting look at Daikundi, a province where we are doing outreach [meaning, we cannot install a program office there due to the danger present, but we have staff working there who faciliate the adoption of our programming by those who can move more freely in the province]. I don’t know much about Daikundi yet, so I cannot vouch for the views in this blogpost, but it raises someRead More

today is day number five

March 25, 2011 Uncategorized

and already I think I’ve gone out more times than I did on average in a month back home. It’s because, I’ve quickly realized, having a strong social network and consistency of things to go do is a serious lifeline here in terms of keeping one’s sanity and not burrowing down in homesickness. I can’t be the homebody here that I am somewhat back home, because if I was, I’d go nuts. The first couple days were rough, but yesterdayRead More

The Final Countdown!

March 16, 2011 Uncategorized

I’ve got three days to go here until I leave, and it feels both exciting and overwhelming.. for now I’m just trying to ride the wave until the plane takes off. Ry and I had an awesome weekend in LA, riding our bikes 41 miles through the city [crazy and super fun] and getting some drives up and down the coast. In the last few weeks I’ve been lucky to see my aunt, uncle, cousins [one set of them anyways],Read More