February 2012
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The Real Peace Corps
What the title says yo. Recommended reading for everyone.
whereintheworldisflick:
This posting is from another PCV’s blog who is currently serving in Ethiopia. His name is Michael, and though I have never met him, he has perfectly captured what being a volunteer in Africa is like. I feel like he was written the exact words I have thought. Please go and check out the blog Waid’s World, not to...
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Peace Corps or Posh Corps?
Or just Peace Corps Response + a little luck? Here’s a sample of what my meals have been looking like since I got to post a couple weeks ago.
1st course
2nd course
3rd course - Not pictured because there wasn’t any today, but in the past 2 weeks we’ve had flan (regular and chocolate), crepes multiple times, fruit salad multiple time, etc.
These nuns are too awesome.
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Art is Literally Hard Here
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Zoo Privé du Président
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Just The Beginning
I took these pics of the 1st classes I observed a week ago. It’s only been a week, but a ton of changes have already been made. I hope to get this IT program into top shape by the time the next school year begins. Biggest goal I’ve had in a while that I really plan to accomplish.
Regarding this last pic, a couple of days ago I trained my counter-part (the guy in the picture) how...
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Un Paradis Secret
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Bonne Arrivée: My New Home
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January 2012
19 posts
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Attention Eh
hahaha ah bon? This is posted outside the PC Burkina med unit office.
Now you are going to start to see why I called this blog Nothing Is Weird.
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Contact Info
ph: 226 77 49 43 98
snail mail:
Steven Miyakawa, PCRV
Corps de la Paix
01 BP 6031
Ouagadougou 01
BURKINA FASO
Michael Jackson, 1 million dollars, yah feel me, holla. Seriously. Holla.
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Bonjour Paris
Long layover in Paris and since I skipped most of the tourist ish when I was here back in October, I went and did some tourist ish.
Okay, next stop Ouagadougou.
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Goodbye America
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Mobile Life Project
I was interviewed by Ed a.k.a. Mido of the Mobile Life Project today about traveling and living in Africa. We went to a Buddhist temple deep in Palolo Valley to do the interview. Didn’t even know that ish was there. Here’s the link to the yelp page: Mu-Ryang-Sa Buddhist Temple.
I’ll post the link up for the interview whenever Mido edits and uploads that ish.
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Final Hawaii Beach Sesh
After checking out that crepe place on Waialae Ave. for breakfast, I decided to swing by the beach to see the pacific ocean up close and personal one last time before my departure.
Yep. This is Hawaii. In a rich friggin neighborhood. Damn kids. haha.
“Most good things happen without a plan: friendships, falling in love, finding a...”
– » How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal) :zenhabits (via bijan)
“Life in the Peace Corps will not be easy. There will be no salary and allowances...”
– John F. Kennedy (via sarahreichle)
and it was
(via the-sprawl)
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Karaoke Sesh With Sistah Treashah
www.siselytreasure.com
Sisely is playing a last minute acoustic show with the homie Ryan Miyashiro tonight at the Mercury Bar in Chinatown around 11ish.
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The Final Countdown: Update 1
It turns out that I leave on Jan 18th. 3 less days to do stuff here. Better get crackin.
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The Final Countdown
Just got word today that I’ll be flying out on Jan 21st for my IT Education Specialist position with Peace Corps Response in Burkina Faso, West Africa. So that gives me 12 days to get my shit together and meet up with all the people I didn’t get to meet up with yet.
I just stopped by Best Buy to pick up a new Canon PowerShot camera, so pics should resume shortly (need to charge the...
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2011 Becomes 2012 At Next Door HAWAII
Next Door http://nextdoorhnl.com
Here we go yo, here we go yo…
ALT/AIR http://www.facebook.com/wearealtair
GRLFRNDS http://music.grlfrnds.com/
My camera stopped functioning after this picture. Doh! Happy new year. 2012 nothing is weird brah.
December 2011
18 posts
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Watch#HowToBeStokedEveryday #JamYoJamz
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Sunny Day Explorations: Alan Davis, Hawaii
#HowToBeStokedEveryday
CJ Olde Ivory t-shirt Pose directed by #HowToBeStokedEveryday
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Copter Design Vacay Workshop
http://copterdesign.com
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Peace Corps Volunteer Toolkit
A couple of not so obvious things that will come in handy for any Peace Corps volunteer. The mini projector has a 1 and a half hour to 2 hour battery life, so it’s still useful if you have no electricity as long as you have a village nearby with electricity to charge it.
Samsung PICO SP-H03 - Price has gone up $25 since I bought it last month. Check ebay periodically though. I saw a brand...
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Uncle Buddy Is My Life Coach
#HowToBeStokedEveryday
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Life's A Beach
Here’s a little story about December 23rd 2011 at da kine’s house in Haleiwa, HI.
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Art & Flea 12/22/11
The yarn panties we’ve been talking about! Hodahot ah?
http://www.etsy.com/shop/kawaiifriendscafe
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You'll Learn Later
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The Secret Guy
R H O M B U S
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Midnight Hawaiian Snack
Took me like 15 damn minutes to get this picture up because for some reason you can no longer access the URL for an image in Google Photos. If you can, I certainly can’t figure it out. So I went and created a new Flickr account.
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WWF Between Men In Their 30s
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The Boyz Club
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Supercw Best Ever Party
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Kan't Stop Kahaluu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahaluu,_Hawaii
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He'eia Kea Pier General Store & Deli
Cheeee cheee cheeee cheee cheee huuuuuuuuuu! http://www.facebook.com/heeiapier
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Genius Lounge
Best happy hour I’ve across so far in Hawaii. $2.50 drafts and sangria, sake specials, etc. I believe happy hour is 6-8pm.
http://geniusloungehawaii.com
Sometimes we talk to imaginary friends. Nothing is weird.
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Afrikakakaka
From June 2009 - August 2011, I lived in Togo, West Africa.
I don’t want to go into all the details about it cause I would be here typing forever and that would be olden day Xanga blogging steez. Like it or not, it’s 2011 and it’s the Tumblr / Twitter era of one liners. Deal with it.
I’m going back to Africa again in about a month. This time I’m headed to Burkina...