Hi all,
Well here it is, I've taken the big step and am writing my adventures down and sending them out into the world for all of you to read. I'm off to the Gambia with the Peace Corps in just over a week so I'm mentally preparing my self for a long stint of saving the children, partaking in back-breaking labour, and long spells of idleness as I've come to find out. The Gambia looks like its going to be an interesting place to live for the next couple of years, seemingly full of contrasts to the daily life I've become used to here in Maine. Its a predominantly Muslim country if you didn't know and incredibly poor, ranking somewhere around 160 out of the 170 poorest countries in the world. Most likely I'll be living in a family compound without running water or electricity which will certainly slow down the pace of life. The Peace Corps has been fairly vague about my role in the Gambia, but I've been placed in the agricultural progam which ranges from developing alternative methods for cooking fuel, bee keeping, community garden plot development, and other things along those lines. It looks like I will be come a real development worker like all of those books and journals described in university. Lots to look forward to in this future of mine. At the moment, home life is where I'm at, bouncing around, doing a bit of sailing on our old sloop and also a bit of hiking here and there. I got to go back and visit up in old Halifax a week ago and its still as great as it always was. Its just missing the old characters which have now spread out across the world on so many different continents. And if any of you were wondering, the chicken shwarma at Venus Pizza is still as good as ever! Amazing really. I hope all of you are well where ever you may be
Lots of love