Stickers such as these were (and probably still are) often seen inside of taxis in Anglophone Cameroon.
Tag: Peace Corps
I’m on a road trip across the western United States, and the fact that I live in Madagascar keeps coming up in conversations with complete strangers. People just ask me where I live—after I shamelessly bait …
When the prince and the princess from The Princess and the Pea go out of town for a weekend getaway, I figure it looks something like this.
I just went up and down the entire main street in my neighborhood saying “Meese pants” over and over again. Exhibit A: Edwin Meese wearing pants The errand started with me going from shop to shop …
The two boys were in an intense match. I thought of taking photo, but I didn’t want to distract them.
This wild-eyed guy locked eyes with me and put himself on a collision course.
I was sitting in a dentist’s waiting room in an Adventist Dental Center in Antananarivo, Madagascar. On the TV was some kind of closed-circuit religious programming that mostly involved cheerful white people in a talk show …
A trip to Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, and Mitsinjo Reserve.
We yukked at him. But maybe the guy really was wishing us a happy New Year.
Standing there brandishing an umbrella and looking ridiculous, I realized I needed to adjust my American expectations.