I have just
celebrated my third birthday in Madagascar,
and though this one was spent amongst other volunteers it reminded me of
celebrations in the past. Like
everywhere, celebrations are big here in Madagascar,
but they are not celebrated entirely the same.
Take birthdays for example. Had I
had this last birthday with my Malagasy friends in Vondrozo it would be
expected that I buy all the drinks and snacks for the party, where in the United
States you would expect that, though you may
provide a lot for the party, those in attendance would also provide things
(namely drinks).
Peace Corps is a Liberal Arts Degree in Action
I'm honored to have been recently
interviewed by my university (University
of Texas at Arlington)
about my Peace Corps experience and how my liberal arts degree from UTA helped
me during my service.

New Job
As the
title says, my two years of regular service with the Peace Corps has come to an
end and I have extended my service for a third year in a new job. I am still a volunteer with the Peace Corps
and am still living in Madagascar, but I no longer live in Vondrozo nor teach
English. My new job has me living in
Diego Suarez (usually just referred to as Diego, for short, or by the Malagasy
name, Antsiranana), a much larger city in the northern tip of Madagascar. I live above the Peace
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8 Quirks I Took to America
During my
two years in Madagascar
I picked up many things that are culturally normal either in Malagasy or
Volunteer culture that are a little weird when done in the United
States.
These things though became my norm and were hard to shake, so when I
returned home on leave my friends, family, and just innocent bystanders got to
witness some of the quirks I had acquired.
Here are the top eight:
4 Things I Found Weird in America
I lived in
the United States
for most of my life. And many of the
things that are common place there are not common place in other parts of the
world. I had become used to those things
being part of life, but during my time in Madagascar
I lived without many of those things and in turn that became my new
normal. I didn’t need/have them and when
I returned to America
the came as a bit of a shock to me and found them a little weird. Here are the top four weird things for me
when I returned to America:
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