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Little Life
My mom made me write this post. She said I should write so that “people know it doesn’t just end when it ends.” I kind of thought that was clear with the last five posts, but okay.So my life right now is…-living in a DC suburb.-mastering the Metro.-trying to get into grad school (for... Read more...
Published 2 months ago
Love
There are certain things I love about having Cameroon in my life. Even though it hurts to have two homes (because you're always missing something), I love getting phone calls at 3 a.m. because Carine can't/doesn't care to keep track of the time difference. I love Wee-Mah yanking the phone from... Read more...
Published 4 months ago
Hope
Reintegration doesn't come easily. Car, job, apartment. Check, check, check. I still miss them. Photos of the girls and Carine smile down at me in my office. I look at them, at the dirt yards and mud brick walls behind them, and wonder how it can feel so much more like home now that I'm apart... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
Outer Loop
We call this "The Kelli Face."America's becoming normal again. That's good and bad, I guess.I've been in Washington for about a month now. In that time, I've gotten a job as a Research Assistant at a corporation in Rockville, found an apartment (which I'm currently waiting to get approved for),... Read more...
Published 5 months ago
Splat
I took the last of my malaria prophylaxes (yes, more than one) today. Does that mean Africa's supposed to be out of my system?Things here are still going, going. This blog won't be going much longer, but I think that the readjustment phase is an important part of the whole Peace Corps picture, so... Read more...
Published 6 months ago
Peace Corps Hangover
Readjustment is turning out to be more difficult than I had anticipated. Even though I'm only about a week and a half deep, it's rough. I think it's mostly because I have a hard time sitting still, and haven't been without a job since I was 16. But now here I am, an RPCV, with no job, no income,... Read more...
Published 7 months ago
"AFRICA: Not For Sissies?" (Holiday in South Africa)
During my vacation in South Africa, I met a man named Joseph who wore a hat that read, "AFRICA: Not For Sissies." In Cameroon I would have agreed. In South Africa I did not. A sissy could fare just fine there. Shopping malls in every little town, KFCs on the corners, and superhighways linking... Read more...
Published 7 months ago
Home Again, Home Again
I've been home for about 4 days now. It's been okay. Okay, I mean in terms of not freaking out. Great, in terms of seeing my family again. But I don't think I'm going into readjustment mode yet because I don't feel like I'm really home yet. I'm leaving on Sunday to go to South Africa for two... Read more...
Published 8 months ago
"On va partir or weti na?"
I’m stuck in Pittsburgh airport right now. And God help me, I’m enjoying myself.I graduated from Peace Corps on Thursday. They gave me the coveted COS pin and gonged me out. Kim (my APCD) said things that were much too nice and I cried, like the fool that I am. It’s the first time that I... Read more...
Published 8 months ago
Tresse Moi
My flight leaves Cameroon in 5 hours. I'm leaving for the airport in 15 minutes. I needed my hair braided so it'll stay out of my face for the next 36 hours and no one here can braid, so I ran to the bar across the street and asked the barmaid if she'd do it. She dropped her rag and tressed me... Read more...
Published 8 months ago
Mi Casa en el Medio de la Calle
In all of these two years, I've kept my house off of this blog. For a while I was going to put photos of it up, and then people attacked my house, so that deterred me some. But now that I'm out of the house, there's no reason to not show off all of my hard work/how a PCV in Cameroon lives. When I... Read more...
Published 8 months ago
The Last Days
Sunday, 28 October 2007I left Yaoundé this morning. I was in town over the weekend to take the GRE on Saturday morning. It went okay. Mostly I’m just glad to be done with it. Last night I was up late (too late, like until 2:30) playing beer pong with some other volunteers, because, really,... Read more...
Published 8 months ago
