These 123 posts include ‘vanuatu’

Climbing the wall
06/12/2004: …your legs more,” our guide told us. In Vanuatu, when Dad and Dot and Nick visited, we trekked on …


Heat waves
07/05/2002: …our friends since our days in the Peace Corps in Vanuatu. The day before Erika came to visit, I purchased … Mangoes, of course, were everywhere in Vanuatu, and so Erika’s presence in the home here … has an impressive collection of artifacts from Vanuatu. I wandered through the hall looking at drums and … Volunteers, Chad and Kristin Metzler, to take to Vanuatu a sum of cash meant for the education of Enna and … (the pidgin English that is the lingua franca of Vanuatu), and when I heard that string band crooning in …


Day trip to talk about Peace Corps
03/10/2013: …about my Peace Corps service in the Republic of Vanuatu. Chad and Kristen Metzler, who both teach at …


Food trucks, coconut water and huhoi
06/23/2012: …on Paama Island. This was early in my time in Vanuatu, and recently I’d lost nearly 20 pounds … are an important part of our daily life in Vanuatu, and made my Peace Corps service very memorable. … in the memory. But, when I first arrived in Vanuatu, I was a bit blinded to that. Having grown up … foods. For some months, I was pretty down on Vanuatu being able to give me that ideal PCV experience. …


Torrid tales from Alex
03/27/2007: …first missionary. (Speaking of missionaries in Vanuatu, I’m nearly finished with the excellent … it.) Alex also wrote about his childhood in Vanuatu in the fantastic book Chasing the Monsoon, which … next morning, and he listened to us talk about Vanuatu culture, politics and food. “A journalist, he had … one of his pieces for that magazine. When we left Vanuatu the next year, we stopped in on Alex at his …


Get on the bus
04/26/2007: …we presented him with an album of bus images from Vanuatu (Toyota vans), Australia (giant, plush touring …


Hero stories
04/09/2003: …handed him a letter I wrote in 1999 when I was in Vanuatu; I’d sent the letter to my dad, but he …


41, and still telling my story
04/02/2011: …Peace Corps and how my service in the Republic of Vanuatu informs my online community building. I’ve …


‘Narratives of HIV’ raises awareness at Carolina
04/23/2004: …I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Vanuatu. In Vanuatu, when friends talk, they …


Voice in the wilderness
10/10/2004: …and career. Not long after Denver died, I was in Vanuatu. Early one evening, I was walking down the road …


Oceans away
10/11/2013: …Pacific. My memories of St. Croix and Waikiki and Vanuatu are all through my blog, chronicling my fun in … for the next class of volunteers to come to Vanuatu. December 19, 1998 Saturday afternoon before a … smug and relaxed and content. Epi is beautiful, Vanuatu comfortable. January 3, 1999 Finally, today, I …


Sunday photo blogging
05/13/2007: …sitting on the bank above them. Each day, Radio Vanuatu broadcast over shortwave radio a shipping report …


Goodbye Friday
08/11/2007: …and long conversations with our Peace Corps Vanuatu friends Erika Rundiks and Kevin Anderson. And on …


Beer tasting in the torrid zone
10/06/2007: …the book.) In Tales, Alex mentions drinking cold Vanuatu Tusker beer at Tasso’s guest house at Lamen …


Spinning class with Colum McCann
04/06/2011: …with some friend or relative. Since those days in Vanuatu, when I pressed the advanced reader’s …


Bracket
06/18/2002: …West, from Cleveland to San Francisco to Fiji to Vanuatu to New Zealand to Australia to Thailand to Europe …


South Pacific
05/26/2008: …I remembered Chief Louis on Paama Island (in Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, setting of the …


Ruhlman's menu for storytelling
04/08/2007: …Erin and I ate there once when we got back from Vanuatu. Yesterday I was into the section about Thomas …


Day of remembering
11/15/2007: …we give people three days to deal with death. In Vanuatu, death gets a year: in the first few days, the …


What's on the calendar
03/28/2006: …Conservancy in Hawaii and made a few trips to Vanuatu; another panelist, a lawyer, recently started a …

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