One year down, one to go in the peace corps. I teach HIV/AIDS education in Masasi Town, Tanzania near the Mozambique border to the South and the Indian Ocean to the East. I speak Swahili, bathe out of a bucket and do not have a toilet. I pray for thunderous cannons of water to rain down on my tin roof, securing another day's bath, another day's drink, solace for the scorched papaya and banana trees in my yard. Most often though, the sun just bakes down shrinking all life like clay in an kiln. It is treacherous and lovely. It ignites all passion. If I had to choose a Greek deity as my attorney he would be Dionysus (liberation through madness, extasy and wine). what I lack in discipline I make up for in impulse and ingenuity. Writing is my remedy. Also, I believe in the power of hiphop as the voice and poetry of the modern revolution. I am apparently the master of the double entendre and most days, particularly when floating on my back in the warm turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to have this gig.*if anything on this page reflects the views of the us government or peace corps it is but a mere and shocking coincidence. This page is all about me me me. Thanks for taking note.
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