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Index
Series Preface
Foreword: Thirty Days That Built the Peace Corps
Introduction
PART I: ON OUR WAY...AND BACK AGAIN
Why I Joined the Peace Corps
There at the Beginning
Learning to Speak
First and Last Days
Hena Kisoa Kely and Blue Nail Polish
Coming to Sierra Leone
Shattering and Using Book Learning
The Adventures Overseas
A Toubac in the Gloaming
Family Affair
Your Parents Visited You in Africa?
What I Tell My Students
Slash and Burn
Two Years Lasts a Lifetime
Sister Stella Seams Serene
Late Evening
The Forty-Eight Hour Rule
Full Circle
A Promise Kept
The Utopia of the Village
PART II: WHY ARE WE HERE?
The Engine Catches
Yaka
Nous Sommes Ensemble
The Sweetest Gift
The Conference
Girls’ School
Testimony
African Woman
My Rice Crop
Gentle Winds of Change
La Supermarché
Mokhotlong
Changing School
The Season of Omagongo
Tapping
The Drums of Democracy
PART III: GETTING THROUGH THE DAYS
Boys & Girls
I’d Wanted to Go to Africa, But the Peace Corps Sent Me to Sierra Leone
Breakfast
Daily Life
Watoto of Tanzania
Begging Turned on Its Head
Time
Learning to Play the Game of Life
A First Real Job
It’s Condom Day!
The Civilized Way
Who Controls the Doo-Doo?
The Ride Home
The Little Things
There Will Be Mud
The Hammam in Rabat
Straight Razors in Heaven
Big Butts Are Beautiful!
Monsieur Robert Loves Rats
Imani
PART IV: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
Hail, Sinner! I Go to Church
A Visit From H.I.M.
Moon Rocket
Bury My Shorts at Chamborro Gorge
Near Death in Africa
Boeuf Madagaskara
The Baobab Tree
The Sports Bar
One Last Party
The Peace Corps in a War Zone
Holding the Candle
A Morning
A Brother in Need
A Tree Grows in Niamey
Jaarga
For Lack of a Quarter...
Crazy Cat Lady
Elephant Morning
At Night the Bushes Whisper
PART V: SUSTAINABLE PEACE
Children of the Rains
Acknowledgements
About the Editor
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