Acronyms:
- PCT - Peace Corps Trainee
- PCV - Peace Corps Volunteer
- LCF - Language Cultural Facilitator; responsible for teaching us the language and helping to integrade during training (mine is Oscar Coulibaly)
- CD - Country Director (Kateri Clement)
- PCMO - Peace Corps Medical Officer (Aissata and Andrea)
- NGO - Non-government organization, non-profit we work with
- CSCOM - A health center, I don't know what the letters actually stand for
- COS - Completion of Service; the date I officially finish as a volunteer
- ET - Early termination; leaving early for any reason
- WAIT - West African Internation Time; meaning late
- TIA - This is Africa; used by volunteers in shock
- WAWA - West Africa Wins Again
Random Terms:
- Homologue - Malian work counterpart; the person I’ll be working with for two years
- Tubob - Any white person
- Dja Tigi - Host family; in my case the people I eat, but do not live, with
- Dugu Tigi- Chief of the village
- Stage house - The common house for PCVs in the San area
- Bruce - A location in the sticks, away from any big town
- Nyegen - Malian bathroom; a walled hole in the ground, usually with no roof
- Bush Taxi - Green "buses" (for lack of a better term) that cram more people, chickens, goats and luggage than you'd ever think possible
5 comments:
more pictures!!
More Bambara!
Thank you. Keep up with all this good information you are feeding us.
more money (wait, did I say that out loud?) Love the pictures, love you!
Thanks for the added pictures. I love them - it's my only way to see where you are and what you're doing. BEAUTIFUL!! Love you!!
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