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Hey everybody! I’m still back in the states. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how life back in the US is and what the future holds, so I’ve linked to an FAQ up top that y’all can check out to get a bit of an update. So less than a week after IContinue reading “Covid-19 Relief Work”

Are you going back?I don’t know What’s your plan for the future?I don’t know Is Peace Corps Mozambique going to open up again?I don’t know How long will it take for you to hear back from Peace Corps about reinstatement?I don’t know If they offered you a job in another country, would you take it?IContinue reading “Peace Corps Evacuee FAQ”

It makes me really sad to be posting this, but at least for the next couple months, I, along with every Peace Corps Volunteer internationally, have been evacuated back home. If you want the full reasoning and everything I’ve put a link down at the bottom of this post to Peace Corps Director Jody Olsen’sContinue reading “I Actually Don’t Have a Job”

I know it’s hard to believe, but in between my days I spend having fashion shows with my neighbors, and the ones I spend traveling all day just to get to a big city so I can taste a nice cheesy, greasy slice of pizza (literally typing this makes my mouth water, I miss cheeseContinue reading “I Actually Have a Job”

I wanted to write a little bit here about teaching by about now, because classes just started two weeks ago, but Mozambique has taught me once again that assuming things are going to go the same way as they do in America is always a bad bet to make. Classes officially started a couple weeksContinue reading “What to Wear in Mozambique”

After getting to my little town almost a month ago exactly, work has been pretty scarce. With the exception of meeting the school director, the pedagogical director, and a few other important people around town, since classes don’t start until February 4th, and I won’t even know what grade I’ll be teaching until January 31st,Continue reading “Travels and Tribulations”

Four months ago my cohort of fifty-something Americans and I took a long flight from JFK to Johannesburg, then from there to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, until finally we arrived in a little town up in the mountains outside Maputo, where at least most of us went from speaking no Portuguese at all, neverContinue reading “Welcome to Moz”