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Peace Corps Volunteer. Peru 2018-2020. CED.

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Author: Woodlandrice

Sarcasm, math, sawdust, water, and fire with occasional bouts of dark and twisty. I like Cadbury Mini-Eggs, breakfast at 2am, and my dog Cabot. I currently think blogging is as appealing and futile (for me) as online dating, however Kris told me to do it and you just read my bio. So!
Posted on July 14, 2019

Tour de Despedidas [Week Four]

No regrets

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Posted on July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

Tour de Despedidas [Week Three]

And I thought one month would be too long

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Posted on June 25, 2019July 2, 2019

Tour de Despedidas [Week Two]

Step-by-step in an alternate upside-under paradise

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Posted on June 19, 2019July 2, 2019

Tour de Despedidas [Week One]

Week One of a farewell tour for Peace Corps Peru.

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Posted on April 6, 2019April 6, 2019

Close of Service [Accidental COS]

An abrupt end in the road

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Posted on April 1, 2019

Service Week 42 [Spri-Polar]

Thai food and Scrabble

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Posted on March 24, 2019March 25, 2019

Service Week 41 [Hail María]

Is it time for whiskey shots yet

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Posted on March 16, 2019March 18, 2019

Service Week 40 [Popcorn Popping]

Hurry up and WTH

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Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Service Week 39 [Happy Anniversary]

This week's blog brought to you by a ghost writer

Posted on March 1, 2019March 3, 2019

Service Week 38 [Breaking Wide Open]

Yeah, didn't see that one coming...

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Posted on February 24, 2019February 24, 2019

Service Week 37 [Phagocytizing Mike]

A teaching moment about a NTD (Neglected Tropical Disease)

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Posted on February 17, 2019February 18, 2019

Service Week 36 [Jekyll & Hyde]

When the "hurry up and wait" game is strong

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Posted on February 11, 2019February 12, 2019

Service Week 35 [Be Right Back]

I needed a minute to explain what was happening

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Posted on February 3, 2019February 4, 2019

Service Week 34 [Electroshock Therapy]

It's not very Peace Corps without a personalized CDC scare

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Posted on January 27, 2019January 28, 2019

Service Week 33 [Kindergarten Jail]

My week in summer camp prison

Posted on January 19, 2019January 20, 2019

Service Week 32 [More Disco Ball]

More cow bell and disco balls

Posted on January 13, 2019January 13, 2019

Service Week 31 [Begging for Socios]

A week of mastering charades

Posted on January 6, 2019January 6, 2019

Service Week Thirty [Viente Diecinueve]

What is in your 2019 piñata?

Posted on December 29, 2018December 30, 2018

Service Week Twenty-Nine [Live Free y Gorda]

Running water is overrated

Posted on December 22, 2018December 23, 2018

Service Week Twenty-Eight [Upside-Down Summer Solstice]

Christmas is for electrocution

Posted on December 15, 2018December 16, 2018

Service Week Twenty-Seven [Swipe Up]

Be still my freshly broken arm and sports bra full of cement.

Posted on December 7, 2018December 9, 2018

Service Week Twenty-Six [Rambo & Sweet Jesus]

Just another week in the jungle for quality Swamp Time

Posted on December 1, 2018December 2, 2018

Service Week Twenty-Five [Underground in Bed in Cusco]

Just a snippet of vacation before we go jungle deep

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Posted on November 24, 2018November 19, 2018

Service Week Twenty-Four [Thanksgiving Sundays]

When every Sunday is Thanksgiving

Posted on November 17, 2018November 11, 2018

Service Week Twenty-Three [Goal Two & Site-mate B]

Sharing "American" culture with Peruvians by making Thai and Mexican food.

Posted on November 10, 2018November 10, 2018

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.

Posted on November 3, 2018

Service Week Twenty-One [Fault Lines Shifting]

It's not about the accomplishments. It's about time.

Posted on October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

Service Week Twenty [No Salt in this Huayco]

Warning: This week's post contains disturbing content such as me being happy for a minute

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Posted on October 20, 2018October 21, 2018

Service Week Nineteen [Double-Serving of Live Baby Duck]

Baby PCV cutting her first Spanish sarcasm teeth on some baby ducklings

Posted on October 14, 2018November 11, 2018

Service Week Eighteen [A Skinny Cow Rappel]

Sometimes voting is as easy as a rappelling with a skinny cow

Posted on October 6, 2018October 7, 2018

Service Week Seventeen [Fireflies in a Lightning Storm]

You know. Just some butterflies on cow patties kinda week

Posted on September 29, 2018October 3, 2018

Service Week Sixteen [Life Outside the Inbox]

Practicing "good enough is perfect"

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Posted on September 23, 2018September 27, 2018

Service Week Fifteen [Mostly Part of my Best]

Time to kick the board

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Posted on September 16, 2018September 27, 2018

Service Week Fourteen [Two Thousand Five Minutes]

If this week's post was a speed date...

Posted on September 9, 2018September 9, 2018

Service Week Thirteen [Nothing but Vent]

Goat cheese and grief

Posted on September 1, 2018September 2, 2018

Service Week Twelve [All Corners of the Fishbowl]

Life from the fishbowl

Posted on August 25, 2018August 25, 2018

Service Week Eleven [Enough Patience to Grow]

Stumbling into Wonderland

Posted on August 18, 2018September 1, 2018

Service Week Ten [A New Resident of Perú ]

Still no idea what I am doing

Posted on August 12, 2018September 1, 2018

Service Week Nine [Condoms in my Yogurt]

So that car wreck is done and over

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Posted on August 4, 2018August 4, 2018

Service Week Eight [All In Good… Theory]

Watch out for jungle tiger spiders featured here, left of center

Posted on July 28, 2018September 1, 2018

Service Week Seven [Skydiving with Jellyfish]

Running straight into the jungle

Posted on July 22, 2018September 1, 2018

Service Week Six [Would I Rather?]

Everything is still in Spanish

Posted on July 11, 2018July 15, 2018

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.

Posted on July 8, 2018July 8, 2018

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

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Posted on July 1, 2018July 8, 2018

Service Week Three [I promised Fleener Baby Elephants]

Immersion means leaving the house and talking to strangers. A lot.

Posted on June 25, 2018July 1, 2018

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?

Posted on June 17, 2018July 1, 2018

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...

Posted on June 10, 2018June 17, 2018

Week Twelve [From PCT to PCV]

And the final verdict after three months training is...

Posted on June 3, 2018June 3, 2018

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.

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Posted on May 27, 2018May 27, 2018

Week Ten [Los Contrarios]

Life hack: Hide trashy junk food everywhere. You never know what minute you'll need to use coping chocolate.

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