C, F, L, R

Currently en route to Cameroon — this is the first leg of the 18-hour trip, which is American Airlines to Brussels with a three-hour layover before a Belgium Air flight to Yaoundé. Readers are encouraged to price these flights (Thursday overnight into Friday; Friday morning) and report their findings. All comments will be lovingly read […]

Staging is done now; tomorrow it’s immunizations and then off to JFK to fly out. I’m taking notes on pen-and-paper again. I spent a half-hour saving pages of the Icehouse wiki as PDFs. The Organization pretty much out-and-out forbids you from writing anything that is negative about the Organization or the country you’re serving, which […]

I was up a little later than perhaps I should have been and consequently had a hard time getting out of bed. My luggage are each 1-3 lbs over the limit (also: 0.5-1.5 kg). I probably would have stayed awake longer, trying to put more of my digital life in order, except that my wonderful […]

Just threw the clothes I was wearing into the laundry and then streaked back up to my room naked. The goal is to make sure I don’t leave any festering dirty clothes. I am probably overthinking this, as I have overthought everything else. Today I spent a little while looking for Icehouse pieces, figuring that […]

You can find a valid form for granting power of attorney in New York State in the New York State General Obligations Laws, title 15 section 5-1513. (Or just go to the Consolidated Laws of New York State page and click General Obligations, and then title 15 or whichever one says”Power of Attorney”.) You also […]

Impulse bought today: a Cowon D2+ (personal music player: a little pricey as far as these things go, but rated for 52 hours of music playback, and supports OGG and FLAC) and a Aluratek Libre (e-ink reader: fairly inexpensive as far as these things go, and relatively small/lightweight, and I’m a sucker for anything named […]

So there you go.  Hope all that helps. Really, there’s no need to stress as you can either find things you forget here or have them shipped from home.  Good luck with everything, and see you all when you get here. This is from the packing guide I got by email (as part of a […]

Asian-American Volunteers are often considered Chinese even when they have a different ethnic origin. They may also be assumed to be martial arts experts and asked to demonstrate their expertise. This is in the “welcome book”, which serves as an introduction to the country I will be serving in. I found the above pretty funny […]

The subject is relatively new in Cameroon. Most schools do not yet have computers, so teaching this subject will take lots of creativity. About a month ago I got my assignment. The above is a quote. I leave in less than a week. Of course, the story begins over a year ago when I started […]