Notice: Undefined index: limit in /home/www/travelblog.org/html.v3/_internal/rss-index.php on line 26 Notice: Undefined index: location in /home/www/travelblog.org/html.v3/_internal/rss-index.php on line 36 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 311 Notice: Use of undefined constant text - assumed 'text' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 312 Notice: Use of undefined constant title - assumed 'title' in /home/www/libs/travelblog.v3/rss.inc.php on line 318 Travel Blog | ti2ger http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/ti2ger/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from ti2ger en-us Sun, 27 May 2012 19:17:58 +0000 Sun, 27 May 2012 19:17:58 +0000 A Camel Ride I live right next to the premier tourist destination of Mauritania Chinguetti. As you can imagine this is not quite like Disneyland but it is enough to draw a few eco tourists from all over to the world. Until the last week I never took full advantage of my location and Im very glad I finally took some time to see whats to be seen in the Adrar Mauritania. A group of old friends http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-94183.html September After another month I am over half way done with my service It is fitting that my birthday is a few days after the day I became a volunteer because being a volunteer has had such an effect on my me that marking the completion of my first year of services seems every bit as important as marking the 24th year of my life. The previous month has seemed a bit longer than normal. Even though ther http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-91520.html Diversity in Computer Science In the middle of April things in Atar were already winding down for the summer. The schools were still going but many of the towns citizens had left. Thus my usual trainings were winding down and I was finding I had a lot of free time. When I thought about my Peace Corps service I was proud that I had managed to get out of my house most days and be in the community but I felt as though http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-84382.html Still Here Hello folks. Its been some time since my last post so I wanted to let you all know that Im still here. I am still giving lessons still working out computer problems and still getting out into the community. I am though I must admit a bit winded. As some of you know my computer was stolen from my house while I was sleeping on my roof. It was stolen around 3 weeks ago. The thieve http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-68757.html A day in my life Hello folks. Its been a long time since I posted a blog and Im sorry about that. As I mentioned in my first blog I intend to post every two weeks but our internet access has been interrupted so I wasnt able to post in the last cycle. Thanks to all of you for being patient and thanks to all of you who reminded me to put up a blog by email but unfortunately I havent been able http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-57061.html Ode to the Alliance Frances in Atar Many of you have heard of the idea of a French alliance. There is probably one in every major city in the US. The idea is that people in other countries can learn the culture of the French and thus the French culture will spread and stay alive. We have one such center here in Atar and it is terrific. The center offers all kind of resources centering on language training. For the equivalen http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-46241.html WAISTED Well sportsfans the Mauritanian Peace Corps Volunteers also known as the RIM Pirates have won the West African Softball Invitational WAIST held in Dakar Senegal. Last Friday at 600 AM I and most of Peace Corps Mauritania loaded onto a bus and rolled out of Nouakchott the capitol of Mauritania for Dakar Senegal. It took us 16 hours to get there when it should have taken 10 but afte http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Senegal/Cape-Verde-Peninsula/Dakar/blog-43275.html Tell Bush A kid named Muhammad Ould Brahim has been hanging around me of late and against my better judgment I have let him. In Mauritania children are raised much differently than in the states. It is not seemly for a child in Mauritania to address an adult and adults who encourage this by responding to them are encouraging bad behavior. However Muhammad has a history of seeing me on the street g http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-40511.html A new house Upon returning to my site in Atar after a 2 week stay in Nouakchott for Christmas and training I was thrilled to get into my new house. I got a tour of the place complete with its neat little rooms real toilet and shower and AC and was told to wait for the patron to return before I could move in. Finally after a week she did. I took my good friend Mustapha with me to see the patron in http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-38270.html Now a Blogger I am no longer a website owner and am now a mere blogger. You may recall my excitement over my new website only a month ago but it is now tragically gone. The address was staff.washington.eduti2ger92 and it was plenty of free space for me to use. The problem though was right there in the address. Indeed I used to be a very productive staff member at the University of Washington but http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/blog-38267.html