Rushed out of Bolivia, plopped down in the Gambia. Life on two continents in two years: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Enjoy.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
If You Would Like to Make a Call, Please Hang Up and Try Again
Due to high volume of unwanted calls from unknown numbers and unidentified individuals, I have now changed my cell phone number. Please send an email to truong.tammy@gmail.com if you want it!
"Is peace simply the absence of war? Or is it the absence of the conditions that bring on war, the conditions of hunger, disease, poverty, illiteracy, and despair?"
The Peace Corps today has 7,749 Volunteers serving in 73 countries. Three-fifths of the Volunteers are female; 1,240 are people of color; and 465 are older than 50. The oldest Volunteer today is 81.
Wish List
-currently empty-
All my wishes have come true!
“Many don’t see any particular point in having their culture and lifestyle destroyed so that people can sit in traffic jams in New York.” – Noam Chomsky
The goal of development is to work ourselves out of a job.
–Peace Corps Volunteer
Poverty, injustice, oppression, suffering, these remain the basic conditions of life on most of the planet- whatever else has changed since [Che Guevara’s] death, this hasn’t, but as life becomes more pleasurable and affluent for the rest of us, the poor seem more remote than ever, their appeal to our humanity even fainter.
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Random question--do you have a TV?
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