No regrets
Tour de Despedidas [Week Three]
And I thought one month would be too long
Tour de Despedidas [Week Two]
Step-by-step in an alternate upside-under paradise
Tour de Despedidas [Week One]
Week One of a farewell tour for Peace Corps Peru.
Close of Service [Accidental COS]
An abrupt end in the road
Service Week 42 [Spri-Polar]
Thai food and Scrabble
Service Week 41 [Hail María]
Is it time for whiskey shots yet
Service Week 40 [Popcorn Popping]
Hurry up and WTH
Service Week 39 [Happy Anniversary]
This week's blog brought to you by a ghost writer
Service Week 38 [Breaking Wide Open]
Yeah, didn't see that one coming...
Service Week 37 [Phagocytizing Mike]
A teaching moment about a NTD (Neglected Tropical Disease)
Service Week 36 [Jekyll & Hyde]
When the "hurry up and wait" game is strong
Service Week 35 [Be Right Back]
I needed a minute to explain what was happening
Service Week 34 [Electroshock Therapy]
It's not very Peace Corps without a personalized CDC scare
Service Week 33 [Kindergarten Jail]
My week in summer camp prison
Service Week 32 [More Disco Ball]
More cow bell and disco balls
Service Week 31 [Begging for Socios]
A week of mastering charades
Service Week Thirty [Viente Diecinueve]
What is in your 2019 piñata?
Service Week Twenty-Nine [Live Free y Gorda]
Running water is overrated
Service Week Twenty-Eight [Upside-Down Summer Solstice]
Christmas is for electrocution
Service Week Twenty-Seven [Swipe Up]
Be still my freshly broken arm and sports bra full of cement.
Service Week Twenty-Six [Rambo & Sweet Jesus]
Just another week in the jungle for quality Swamp Time
Service Week Twenty-Five [Underground in Bed in Cusco]
Just a snippet of vacation before we go jungle deep
Service Week Twenty-Four [Thanksgiving Sundays]
When every Sunday is Thanksgiving
Service Week Twenty-Three [Goal Two & Site-mate B]
Sharing "American" culture with Peruvians by making Thai and Mexican food.
Service Week Twenty-Two [Five Weekdays to Sideways]
"It was the first time I set down the thought I didn’t belong." That didn't last.
Service Week Twenty-One [Fault Lines Shifting]
It's not about the accomplishments. It's about time.
Service Week Twenty [No Salt in this Huayco]
Warning: This week's post contains disturbing content such as me being happy for a minute
Service Week Nineteen [Double-Serving of Live Baby Duck]
Baby PCV cutting her first Spanish sarcasm teeth on some baby ducklings
Service Week Eighteen [A Skinny Cow Rappel]
Sometimes voting is as easy as a rappelling with a skinny cow
Service Week Seventeen [Fireflies in a Lightning Storm]
You know. Just some butterflies on cow patties kinda week
Service Week Sixteen [Life Outside the Inbox]
Practicing "good enough is perfect"
Service Week Fifteen [Mostly Part of my Best]
Time to kick the board
Service Week Fourteen [Two Thousand Five Minutes]
If this week's post was a speed date...
Service Week Thirteen [Nothing but Vent]
Goat cheese and grief
Service Week Twelve [All Corners of the Fishbowl]
Life from the fishbowl
Service Week Eleven [Enough Patience to Grow]
Stumbling into Wonderland
Service Week Ten [A New Resident of Perú ]
Still no idea what I am doing
Service Week Nine [Condoms in my Yogurt]
So that car wreck is done and over
Service Week Eight [All In Good… Theory]
Watch out for jungle tiger spiders featured here, left of center
Service Week Seven [Skydiving with Jellyfish]
Running straight into the jungle
Service Week Six [Would I Rather?]
Everything is still in Spanish
Service Week Five [The House with the Tree in Front]
Keeping it real: There isn't a pot of gold on this end of the rainbow.
Service Week Four [Patience is a Four-Letter Word]
Scenes from the week as well as a very creatively butchered version of the History of Peru
Service Week Three [I promised Fleener Baby Elephants]
Immersion means leaving the house and talking to strangers. A lot.
Service Week Two [Right on Schedule]
Still wondering after two weeks why I am not skinny and fluent in Spanish. What kind of rehab is this?
Service Week One [Let the Wild Rumpus Start]
You know that part in the story when Dorothy finds out all she had to do was click her ruby slippers together three times and...
Week Twelve [From PCT to PCV]
And the final verdict after three months training is...
Week Eleven [Pollada]
This week didn't make me quit. And it features a scorpion carrying a message from the gods. Also a sizable cabbage.
Week Ten [Los Contrarios]
Life hack: Hide trashy junk food everywhere. You never know what minute you'll need to use coping chocolate.