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Finding Your Calling: Bard CEP Class of 2013 Internship Dinner
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsThe Bard Center for Environmental Policy hosted their annual internship dinner last night to welcome back their second year masters students. The Class of 2013 returned to campus last week... -
Adopting a Cameroonian Lifestyle as a “White Man Woman” (Pidgin for anybody foreign, with recognition of being a female)
Posted on January 17, 2013 | No CommentsArriving Our group of Peace Corps (P.C.) Volunteers arrived in Cameroon on September 21st, 2012, coinciding with 50 years of P.C. partnership between the U.S. and Cameroon. Subsequently, our swearing-in... -
Solar Panels in Ñaupe, Perú
Posted on June 7, 2012 | No CommentsJune 1, 2012 When I first arrived in Ñaupe, the town had no electricity. A few months into service, the Peace Corps Renewable Energy Committee sent out an e-mail announcing... -
Sonia in Ghana- One Year In
Posted on June 2, 2012 | No CommentsVillage Savings and Loans Associations: Filling the Local’s Needs Created by the Insecurity of Farming in Sirigu, Ghana Hello from Ghana! I’ve almost hit my year mark of leaving for... -
Peace Corps Samoa and BCEP
Posted on May 30, 2012 | No CommentsOne of the things Peace Corps requires of its volunteers as they near their close of service (COS) is that they reflect back over their two years and write a... -
Garbage !
Posted on April 29, 2011 | No CommentsFrom the blog Karen and Dave In Samoa Posted April 21, 2011 It would be nice to say that Karen and I had such great success with the first field... -
We Asked, You Acted !
Posted on April 21, 2011 | No CommentsFrom the blog Karen and Dave In Samoa Posted April 1, 2011 When we first arrived in Samoa we realized that our vegan/vegetarian diets would not be possible in Samoa… immediately.... -
Samoan Umu
Posted on March 29, 2011 | No CommentsFrom the blog Karen and Dave In Samoa Posted March 13, 2011 This is the traditional way to cook Samoan food. I have been told that this version is not... -
Solar Cooker
Posted on March 10, 2011 | No CommentsFrom the blog Karen and Dave In Samoa Posted March 1st, 2011 Finished rice ready to eat Last January, I went to a conference in Washington, DC. One of the sessions... -
Karen and Dave Reach Samoa
Posted on October 21, 2010 | No CommentsCross Posted from Karen and Dave in Samoa on October 14, 2010 Samoa: A Pacific Paradise Since we have arrived in Samoa, we have had a full day at the beach,... -
Update from Master’s International Student Karen Corey
Posted on August 27, 2010 | No CommentsKaren Corey ’13 is in CEP’s Master’s International program with the Peace Corps, about to start her Peace Corps assignment in Samoa. Today is the first day of my last... -
Inside the Peace Corps: Kristine in Caibiran, Biliran, Philippines
Posted on August 18, 2010 | No CommentsFor the past seven months, I have been working in the municipal Department of Agriculture in. Since the Department of Agriculture is responsible for agriculture, livestock and coastal resource projects,...
