I am dead tired,
but there are no flies in my house today!
Tired of Being Mild
My Peace Corps Grant has been approved, now for the hard part, I have to raise all of the money.
Even a little bit will go a long way!
You can find out more about the project at the link. If you want to see the entire grant application just email Peace Corps about project 378-216.
“When everyone in the village has a working toilet the water supply will be protected. Additionally, after the training each family will have one or more family members who know how to build and maintain a latrine long-term. In addition to the physical construction, trainings will include lessons teaching people the benefit of latrine use, eventually fostering an understanding of disease infection and prevention throughout the community at large. This will provide better water security and decrease the spread of disease. “
(Source: peacecorps.gov)
I just found this on my widow sill.
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what it is?
We’re still trying to figure out if it’s a spider, or an ant.
Big prize for the first to give us the right answer.
Grace & Grace
This I am so excited about
De-legitimizing Christians outside the evangelical tribe
“The de-legitimization Noah describes is the attempt by the self-appointed bishops of the religious right to exclude those millions from Christianity — and to prevent the remaining majority of white evangelical Protestants from being able to imagine that voting for anyone other than who they’re told to vote for is even a possibility.”
I remember the first time I read Anne Lamott, I was 16 years old, and trying to figure out how I was going to deal with what at the time seemed like a major conflict, and then I was like… “oh, I actually have a place here.”
this link is by way of my friend David
Outrage in India over fairness product for female private parts
The television commercial for the “intimate” product promises its “special pH-balanced formula cleans and protects the affected area, and even makes the skin fairer.” Fairness products are regularly endorsed by film stars and celebrities in India despite protests from feminists that they promote insecurity and discrimination amongst women.
Magazines and advertising agencies have taken the flak for heavily using photo editing software on pictures of models endorsing such products to make them look fairer than they are in real life. The obsession with fair skin is often linked to a woman’s marital prospects.
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“Ok this is the ultimate insult. Skin whitening for your vagina,” Rupa Subramanya, a writer with the Economics Journal for Wall Street Journal, India tweeted. User Neha who tweets as @ThePunjew said: “What a bummer, there’s no shade card yet to monitor fairness progress!”
Just when you thought shadeism couldn’t get any worse. I’m just - I honestly don’t have words to explain the disdain I’m feeling right now.
Peace Corps Kitchen
:this is a new blog segment I am devoting to my kitchen exploits as a PCV:
I now have my ground whole wheat, it fills up this huge aluminum tin in my kitchen. In honor of the new wheat I’m having strawberry pancakes.
Strawberry Almond Pancakes (Vegan Option)
1/2 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 Cup White Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
Pinch of Salt
1 cup-water blended with 10-12 almonds (this is your milk)
1 egg or egg replacer (1 mashed banana or 1T ground flax seed with 2T warm water)
2 Tablespoons Vegetable Oil
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1 Cup Sliced Strawberries
Combine wet and dry ingredients, cook in a nonstick skillet on medium heat. Personally I don’t like fruit baked into my pancakes so I just pour it on top and then eat away.
Full disclosure I used an egg in making the ones pictured above, but they came from very happy chickens so I feel ok about it. They’re from Anni’s landlord who insists on giving us food every week, and his chickens live in his house and front yard. Seriously it is out of control, they have taken over his house, he lives in two tiny rooms and his 5 chickens live in the rest of the house.
So… This happened yesterday. Rain in my House.
Not to worry though the three sisters who live next to me came and fixed it.
Tattooing in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans
This is my new obsession.
and my new topic of conversation. So far all I have figured is that in Baknou you get them if you want/like them, and how you get them (think: needle and Kohl)
Rain is dripping from my celling,
how concerned should I be?
In better news it rained in Baknou, everything is green and smells like life.
