I have a quick break from language classes. I am currently learning Bambara. Most Malians speak Bambara.
It was really funny today. There is a huge tortoise and he was at my doorstep. Somebody got him to move so I could leave.
All in all, life is good. Using the yeagan (hole in the ground) is a challenge, but I'm sure by the end of my two years, I will be a yeagan professional.
I'll try to come back tonight to post picts!
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The Chronicles of my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali and China
Katie
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I was told to remove the address from my blog...ask my mom my address if you want to write me.
About Me
- cannokm
- My name is Katie, and I am serving in Corps de la Paix. This is my blog of my adventures in Mali and China
Books I've Read in China
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Reviving Ophelia
- Letter to my Daughter
- High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
- The Joy Luck Club
- Stones into Schools
- Wild Swans
- Blink
- Flags of our Fathers
- Life and Death in Shanghai
- He's Just Not That Into You
- Portrait in Sepia
- The Lightning Thief
- Sunday Philosophy Club
- PopCo
- Material Girl
- Dead and Gone
- The Girl who Played with Fire
- The Last Lecture
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Book Thief
- The Brooklyn Follies
- All Together Dead
- Interruptions
- Half the Sky
- Definitely Dead
- The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
- The Poisonwood Bible
- Dead as a Doornail
- Bel Canto
- Dead to the World
- Club Dead
- The Book of Ruth
- Living Dead in Dallas
- P.S. I Love You
- Dead until Dark
- The Host
- The Diary of Ma Yan
- Back Roads
- Man Camp
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
- Where the Heart Is
- Red China Blues
- The Undomestic Goddess
- China Road
- Something Blue
Books I've Read in Mali
- Anybody Out There
- The Good Earth
- Something Borrowed
- Remember Me?
- Irish Rebel
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- The Miracle at Speedy Motors
- Midwives
- Secrets
- The Rainmaker
- Unaccustomed Earth
- The Namesake
- Into Thin Air
- Fearless Fourteen
- Lean Mean Thirteen
- Twelve Sharp
- Eleven on Top
- Ten Big Ones
- To the Nines
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- The Places in Between
- White Oleander
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
- Blue Shoes and Happiness
- In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
- The Full Cupboard of Life
- MIss American Pie
- Hard Eight
- Same Kind of Different as Me
- Seven Up
- Hot Six
- A Thousand Acres
- Just Friends
- The Princess Bride (abridged)
- It's Not about the Bike
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- The Kalahari Typing School for Men
- The Silence of the Lambs
- All I Desire
- The Alchemist
- Eleven Minutes
- Things Fall Apart
- Gardenias for Breakfast
- Three Weeks in Paris
- A Loving Scoundrel
- Pride and Prejudice
- High Five
- Four to Score
- Three to Get Deadly
- Jane Eyre
- The Unheard
- Morality for Beautiful Girls
- Three Cups of Tea
- Tears of the Giraffe
- The No. 1 Ladies' Dectective Agency
- The Corrections
- When You Fall
- Bee Season
- Angels
- Don't Look and it Won't Hurt
- Redeeming Love
- Icy Sparks
- Two for the Dough
- One for the Money
- Daphnis and Chloe
- Freakonomics
- In Griot Time
- Death Be Not Proud
- The Shack
- The Red Tent
- Norwegian Wood
- The Giant's House
- A Fine Balance
- Blue Like Jazz
- A Time to Kill
- Breaking Dawn
- Eclipse
- A Thousand Spendid Suns
- Ravished
- Eat, Pray, Love
- New Moon
- Three Weeks with My Brother
- The Rescue
- Twilight
- I Know This Much Is True
- A Painted House
- She's Come Undone
- Water for Elephants
- Little Women
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- Don't Get Too Comfortable
- The Reader
- Wolves in Chic Clothing
- Gone With The Wind
- About a Boy
- Female Trouble
- Time Traveler's Wife
- Shantarum
- Into The Wild
- The Liar's Club
- Can You Keep a Secret?
- Songs in Ordinary Time
- The House on Mango Street
- Wicked
- True Believer
- Seinlanguage
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- The Catcher in the Rye
- The Tenth Circle
- Beach Music
- A Bend in the Road
- Everyone Worth Knowing
- Good in Bed
- The Nanny Diaries
- Someone to Love
- Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
- My Sister's Keeper
- Summer Sisters
- Tuesdays With Morrie (x2)
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- The Birth of Venus
- Watership Down
- Prep
- The Life of Pi
- A Million Little Pieces
- The Alphabet Sisters
- Vagina Monologues
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
Links of Interest
PC/Lala Lingo
- BB- Banana Bread
- CFA- Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (Mali's currency)
- COS- Close of Service, for my stage, September 09
- GW- Good Will (a great place to shop!)
- HP- Harry Potter
- LCF- Language and Cultural Facilitator
- PCT- Peace Corps Trainee; first 3 months in country
- PCV- Peace Corps Volunteer; what you become after swear in (September 21st!)
- RPCV- Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
- SED- Small Enterprise Development
- TBC- The Breakfast Club, our stage's name
- TIA- This IS Africa!
- WAIT- West Africa International Time
Disclaimer
The contents of this website are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. government or the Peace Corps.
2 comments:
Hi Katie,
I have no doubt that an Auburn alumni can master the yeagan. Practice! Practice! Practice!! It is nice to know you are in a safe place with other Peace Corps volunteers. I keep you in my prayers daily.
Aunt Liz
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Just tell me that they don't have any pigs under the yeagan and I'll feel much better! I'm glad you have access to a computer, I figured we wouldn't get another posting for a month. Hang in there. Love, Donna
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