I stayed up til 6 in the morn to see the results due to the time zone thing, and then I realized that Obama and I have parallel futures. He starts his training today, I start my training tomorrow. He does a crash course on being a president and swears in Jan 20; I crash course on being a Gambian supastar and swear in just a few days before.
As of post time, Indiana is still processing votes and has not become either red or blue. I'm still waiting... Hope the Hoosiers make me proud.
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Rushed out of Bolivia, plopped down in the Gambia. Life on two continents in two years: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Enjoy.
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Due to limited access to Internet, letters and/or packages may be mailed to the following. There is no longer a weight limit.
Tammy Truong PCV
US Peace Corps
US Peace Corps
PO Box 582
Banjul, The Gambia
West Africa
About Me
- Tammy
- "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.
–Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
–Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
All views expressed on this page are my own and in no way reflect the views and opinions of the Peace Corps or the United States government
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Are you ok? Happy Thanksgiving!
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