How to build a light bulb drier – food dehydrator

January 3, 2012

Food dehydration and preservation are necessary to improved food security, nutrition and income generation leading to empowerment in the developing world. Using a variety of development resources including appropriate technology to utilize available resources in solar thermal energy, smoking food, and electricity – this project – to produce heat and accelerate drying. Understanding the principle [...]

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Pottage

January 1, 2012

Gooooooood morning folks! This blog’s a little down and dirty, a bit personal, the topics awkward but funny, and well… You’ll see. You’ll forgive me infusing a bit of humor to save you from the butt of it. So it’s that time in the week when I lay in bed and write y’all another update. [...]

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Empowerment – learning to love yourself

December 27, 2011

Mwapoleni mukwai bonse! Mwacibuka shani? Ishina lyandi nine David Kapya, ndi kaipeela mu peace corps. Ndi kafundisha Pafya ubumi uusuma, imilile iisuma, na ukucingilila abalwele. Ndafwilisha abantu mu Mishi pa ubuyantanshi. Whew that’s a mouth full isn’t it? That’s my basic one breath introduction speech. It’s how I start every meeting. I welcome my peers, [...]

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God – the big bad questions

December 22, 2011

You know there are several questions Zambians ask when they meet you in the bush. This is gonna sound bad, but I’m serious. Who are you (meaning what’s your name, where do you stay, and what do you do); You’re a foreigner (which literally translates as white meaning will you buy me something); and What [...]

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Sucker punched by kindness

December 20, 2011

Well damn! It’s been a week short of six months. I’ve been point-adapting and haven’t succumbed to home sickness. Until about two hours ago. Some of my loyal readers and good friends know I love dancing, and that Alex and I danced as often as three or four times a week back in the states. [...]

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Communication

December 17, 2011

What is communication? What does it mean? Is communication talking? Acting? Exploring? Is communication a way to categorize, standardize and understand our world? Or is it a process of expression, one that can be measured, understood and predicted. Is communication so uniform that it provides commonality between all peoples, races and places? Perhaps communication is [...]

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Riding This Roller Coaster Called Life

December 13, 2011

Life is a river, well hell, life is an awful lot of things. But as y’all know from my previous posts life is more than that, life is everything we choose to make it. On a smaller scale life is a series of failures and successes. It’s learning, changing, and suffering. My PCVL -Peace Corps [...]

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Rural Life

December 11, 2011

I don’t know how often y’all get a chance to sit back and take stock of a day’s events but let me share my revelations from today. Don’t work outside in the African sun for 4+ hours. Ever. It’s a terrible idea. Five liters of water drunk and I’m still feeling the heat effects. What [...]

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Change Is In The Air

December 10, 2011

I’m resting on my porch, sitting and enjoying the sweet smell of rains on the air. Flowers are blooming, the land is growing, and harvest edges closer every day. I’d returned last night to a land that I didn’t recognize. My home is different. I was startled. Caught off guard. In awe. The rains had [...]

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Homeward Bound

December 7, 2011

What a crazy two days! I just made it home to my wonderful hut of awesomeness after two long exhausting days of travel. Let’s get some narrative goin’ here shall we? Sooooo, Sunday night, I receive medical clearance, pack my bags, and finish the last of my file sorting. Not shabby right? I felt ready [...]

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