Letters from Paama
February 16, 2007: …we had dinner with other Returned Peace Corps Vanuatu Volunteers Brian, who worked at the same school …
U.S. because of its connotations to slavery; in Vanuatu, the word is left over from the British colonial …
yu long work blong yu. It’s a classic Ni-Vanuatu note asking for goods (Vanuatu is famous for its …
2007 busy. 2008 doubly.
January 5, 2008: …her Raleigh firm job, a possible return trip to Vanuatu in August, and lots of blogging events and …
Off to London
August 31, 2011: …ticket home from our Peace Corps service in Vanuatu. (Read about our various stops in my essay, From …
Tearjerker
February 26, 2007: …kitchen faucet. Erin reminds me that in Vanuatu, we took Enna and Priscilla and Terry to Port …
Sad, sad news
March 10, 2002: …A message today from Vanuatu was a bombshell to me: Noel, a man who considered …
Arizona brunch
February 18, 2002: …most memorable of these was on Efate Island in Vanuatu at the Le Meridien Resort; dad, Dot, Erin, Nick …
Next projects
January 20, 2008: …exam!), mother to get employed, a return trip to Vanuatu to plan, and some big projects at Duke to launch. …
Uno! Uno mas!
February 15, 2002: …salad (Koran is a program officer for Peace Corps Vanuatu). This salad included carrot, onion, garlic, …
that Kevin and Erika were also PC Volunteers in Vanuatu) after seven months of bedrest, many hours of …
Trapped
May 27, 2009: …bait. That’s the Bislama phrase we used in Vanuatu. Of course, in Vanuatu our traps were set with …
Many thanks to you for
September 17, 2001: …visitors from the U.S., the Netherlands, Canada, Vanuatu, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Chile, Pakistan, …
Tar Heel Tavern #34: T-Shirt & Shoes Required
October 9, 2005: …Corps village in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu). UPDATE: I’ll accept other, non-t-shirt …
The One-Two Punch: The 17th
April 18, 2001: …paragraph.) By the way, the Peace Corps office in Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, has called over to …
One question we shouldn't be asking our kids
July 6, 2012: …in the Peruvian Amazon (not unlike the kids in Vanuatu) figure out early on how to use a machete and …
Sea food
December 9, 2012: …brother Nick came to visit us in the Republic of Vanuatu. Erin and I took them one night to Harbourside, …
So off we went to Ambrym Island, in the middle of Vanuatu’s archipelago of 82 islands. First a flight …
ash plain leading to the twin peaks, our young ni-Vanuatu guides instructed us to toss stalks of cane onto …
we needed the next day. But it happened to be Vanuatu Independence Day (July 30, 1999) and while there …
and a shopkeeper let us grab cold Tusker beer (Vanuatu, not Kenya) from the cooler. We locked ourselves …
Earthquake relief
February 11, 2010: …time at Carroll. Then, as Erin and I arrived in Vanuatu for our Peace Corps service, I knew we’d be …
So now, when I hear news of movement in Vanuatu — where a major one hit last year — …
Living and dying with language
June 7, 2005: …night—and instead used the lingua franca of Vanuatu, bislama. I regret not learning to speak Paamese. …
a true loss to linguistics and the peoples of Vanuatu. Just before I left Paama, I made photocopies of …
Welcome Northern Ohio Live Magazine
December 30, 2000: …about Peace Corps Volunteers in the Republic of Vanuatu. (In the January issue of Live, I have an article …
Recharging mental batteries for the next challenge
November 18, 2005: …of violence, wondering how I could use the Vanuatu war club that Noel gave to me when I left Paama …
Naming rights
June 13, 2003: …of what a son might have for a middle name. In Vanuatu, where I served with the Peace Corps, names …
Dmitri. The name didn’t last long. But my Vanuatu nickname has stuck. So, hi. My name is Anton, but …
Putting the bread
May 7, 2007: …Corps service on Paama Island (in the Republic of Vanuatu), I loved walking the hundred yards from our home …
some left over from the missionary days before Vanuatu’s 1980 independence — and put the …
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