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Help my students if you can/Aidez mes étudiants si vous pouvez

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

LE FRANCAIS SUIT Hi everyone, My last appeal for support for my students in Burundi dates back to a little over a year ago. Since then, we have received a boxful of headphones from Spain as well as recorders, microphones … Continue reading →

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Please help my Burundian journalist friends! Vous pouvez aider mes amis burundais!

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

(le français suit) Dear readers, You’ve read about the impressive and hardworking group of young journalists I had the pleasure of teaching in Burundi. Now is your chance to help them! I am trying to organize a full-scale equipment drive … Continue reading →

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Loose Ends

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

It’s evening and there is a howling windstorm outside my apartment. School is closed tomorrow because of the weather. YES I need to go to the grocery store, but I am not going out in that. I stare at the … Continue reading →

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Look what my students did!

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

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A day in my Burundian life

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Today was a typical day in my Burundian life, one of a succession of days that seem to be flying past faster and faster. On Friday my Burundi trip will be half over already!! I woke up when the sun … Continue reading →

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The Bat Cave goes to the zoo

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

N.B The Bat Cave is my classroom, so called because there is no electric light and on gray days I have to find the students by echolocation. Yesterday (Sunday) I came home bone exhausted. I walked all the way downtown … Continue reading →

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Burundi Impressions I and II

Posted on August 24, 2011 by

I am in Africa. Burundi to be exact. Taking advantage of the chance t write because today is one of the days my neighbourhood has electricity. Yep, I said “one of the days my neighbourhood has electricity.” A major regional … Continue reading →

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