Monthly Archives: July 2005

A fon ganji a?

By theresa | Published: July 24, 2005

Let me tell you how about hand washing my clothes is. Three basins and a bucket. Each item is wshed three times before it is rinsed and hung. Washing two skirts, three skirts, and a week’s worth of underwear takes about 2 hours. Just so you know. Other than that, the food is great, [...]

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J’ai fait un peu.

By theresa | Published: July 15, 2005

Dear Internet, Thanks for continuing to visit in my absence. Each one of you stalkers holds a special place in my heart. Life in Benin contiues to be interesting. I took my first bucket shower the other day. Fun indeed. I’m going to miss hot water. Oh wait, no I [...]

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Safe and sound

By theresa | Published: July 9, 2005

Benin is hot and humid. It’s also beautiful, in its own damp, poverty-striken way. It’s only my first full day of orientation, and I’m already exhausted. I haven’t gotten a full night’s sleep in a while, and the schedule is pretty intense. Staging in Philly was pretty dry, but it was great to [...]

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In which t says peace

By theresa | Published: July 7, 2005

Bus to JFK in about an hour. See y’all in 27 months!!!

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In which t instructs.

By theresa | Published: July 4, 2005

For the love of God, PLEASE provide XML feeds to your websites. If you are a blogspot or livejournal user, no problem. You’ve got one. You just don’t know it. I can grab it with your username. If you are a regular blogger user, you’ve got one too! [...]

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Pictures!

By theresa | Published: July 3, 2005

Pictures are now up at pictures.subjectverbobject.com. It’s a bit ugly, but I’ll get things looking a little bit nicer maybe tonight. Hopefully I’ll get some pictures from France scanned and up this weekend too. Haha. Yeah right.

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My packing-fu is UNMATCHED.

By theresa | Published: July 2, 2005

Seriously. I am currently weighing in at 59 lbs. Mom tells me that the scale is off by a little bit, but still. With a possible weight limit of 80 lbs, I’m fucking SET. It is easy to make a weight limit when you are an IDIOT and have no idea whether you’ve [...]