Posted in Cambodia, Blog on January 16th, 2006 4 Comments »
Back when I was still finalizing my decision to leave the Peace Corps, I wrote an e-mail to my family telling them to expect me home by the following week and that I would let them know when my flight would arrive. Later on that night, as I was sitting home still collecting my thoughts, […]
Posted in Cambodia, Cape Verde, Blog on December 14th, 2005 3 Comments »
Typical conversation had with a Cape Verdean stranger:
“So where do you live in America?”
“You ever heard of Providence?”
“Uhh…nao”
Sigh…”My house is an hour from Boston”
“So you live in Boston!”
“…yeah..”
“Do you know _______”, (fill in blank with name of Cape Verdean relative)
“Sorry, no.”
“Why not?”
“Well Boston is a big big city”. A statement I would never say in […]
Posted in Cambodia, Cape Verde, Blog on July 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
Cape Verdean Kriolu should be a very easy language to acquire. It’s a language that all the locals speak, instead of the official language of Portuguese. In my situation, I attend language classes at Peace Corps training at around 14 hours a week. You would think that total immersion in the culture would help speed […]
