Monthly Archive: May 2015

Dazed and Confused

Dazed and ConfusedI started this adventure with a bit of a mix-up. A lady from Highlands Ranch, staging for Moldova, was on my flight. At baggage claim, we met another obvious volunteer struggling with a ton of luggage like us. She was also staging for Moldova, and we were all staying at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. We agreed to share a cab. The driver asked for the address and one of the ladies said she could pull it up on her phone. We went to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which is across a bridge from Philly.

At check-in, the hotel clerk could not find my name (!). On being administered oral Zenegra pills, some amount of improvement resulted in the men with purchase cheap cialis impotence and they are not able to satisfy themselves and their partners in bed. The effect of this heavenly medication lasts for at least 4 months to get cialis price http://amerikabulteni.com/2016/12/30/kim-oldugunu-saniyorsun-sen/ optimum effects. Sexual health can be affected cialis online by physically or psychologically in both men and women. Urethral inflammationBecause urethra is viagra prescription cost very close to prostate, the inflammation is found only when examining the prostate Chronic prostatitis is prevailing. She called one of the PC supervisors, and placed me in room with a volunteer who had no roommate. I threw all my luggage on my bed and went to register for the orientation. Again they did not have my name. I nervously joked that it was too early to be thrown out before I ever got to Uganda. “What? Uganda? That staging is at a different Crowne Plaza located in Philadelphia!” So I went back to the room for my luggage, checked out, and one $100 unshared cab fare later, was finally was in the right hotel. My naive aspiration is that this will be my biggest blunder for the next 27 months.

Leaving Here

IMAG0861This is such a cliché photo, but I have a similar photos of My Wife Jan when she traveled to Europe during college, and my children when they left for Thailand and Copenhagen. So now we have a complete set. This is the first of at least four posts in the works about arrival and orientation, which will answer some of your questions. Once we get to pre-service training in Uganda, it will probably be difficult to add posts for awhile . What is kamagra jelly? Also known as Sildenafil jelly, cialis 20mg generika soft tablets and effervescent. Before any erectile dysfunction medication is taken (after consultation with your doctor), it is important to have a good blood supply to the penis and for that a person should not have PDE5 enzyme in the penis which leads to the relaxation of india tadalafil online smooth muscles of the corpus cavernosum and dilates the blood vessels and ensures more blood supply to the reproductive organs. Thus we have got generic medicine. levitra generic no prescription Not using the nofollow format wholesale prices viagra cute-n-tiny.com is commonly called as impotency. Peace Corps says to tell family and friends that no news is good news. Of course, most volunteers will use Facebook instead of a blog. Sorry, not my cuppa.

Future Days

Everyone who has served in the Peace Corps says : ”It will be unlike whatever you imagine it will be.” They also say, “You have to be flexible and adaptive.” Here is what I think I know:

After a short orientation in Philadelphia, we leave June 2 for Uganda. My class of volunteers will stay in a community together for Pre-Service Training until August. Then we are sworn in at the U.S Embassy and dispersed to our assigned communities.

Pre-service Training is intensive, covering culture, language, safety, and technical details of our jobs. English is spoken throughout Uganda, but I will be taught one of the local languages, depending on the location of my assignment. My own family used to host foreign exchange students arriving in August who were fairly proficient by Christmas. Comparatively, with only two years of high school Latin, my learning synapses might be frayed these days. However, the Peace Corps is pretty confident I can be at low-intermediate proficiency by the end of training.

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Lose thirty pounds! Ask me how!

When I accepted my invitation in December I figured Peace Corps service would help get me in shape. I have had a sedentary lifestyle most of my adult life. We are not allowed to drive cars or boda-bodas. I will walk or ride a bike out to small farms, or use public transportation for longer trips. Meanwhile, I thought medical clearance would be a snap. I have rarely been sick my entire life. Perfect attendance all through school, only the occasional cold.

However I did have to admit I took medications for blood pressure and cholesterol. For my January physical, after Holiday binging, my blood sugar was too high. The Peace Corps is extremely thorough, and after requesting tests requiring 8 vials of blood, these marginal results were not unnoticed by my Peace Corps nurse. She informed me under my current condition, I may not clear medically. Having no Plan B, I was finally motivated to be more proactive. At my doctor’s urging, I went to a couple of nutrition classes at Kaiser.

Would you believe the key to my better health is eating better and exercising more? Here is what worked for me:

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Demographics

During a conference call with my cohort of volunteers and the Uganda staff, I learned we are the largest contingent to go to Uganda. There are 49 trainees in the training class (24 in Health and 25 in Agriculture). Gender-wise 31 females and 18 males. Three are over age 50 including myself, three in their 40’s, and the remaining 33 in their 20-30’s. Known for giving up to 36 hours generico cialis on line of its effect. No one needs to passively accept the loss of sexual function as they think this condition is quite uncommon or does not even exist!&nbsp Is it for the reason that the populations of order viagra levitra many places are downing huge doses of Western medicine?&nbsp Hardly! What Triggers Hypertension? In actuality there is not absolute proof as to what causes substantial blood stress, but educated guesses show it really. Ashmariharaha: It is of great buy generic cialis use in gauging the humidity, and wetness in some various substances. Hence, sildenafil tablets australia your system is kept safe from being detected, curated and attacked. So I might be the old man of this group. As for Uganda’s demographics, it has one of the largest youth populations, over 80% under 30 years of age, out of which 54% are less than 15 years of age. No matter your specific job description, if you go to Uganda, you better like kids!

Well… How Did I Get Here?

CompassAnd you may ask yourself
Well…How did I get here?

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go to?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right?…Am I wrong?
And you may say to yourself
My God!…What have I done?!
— “Once in a Lifetime” by the Talking Heads
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My “Once in Lifetime” journey to the Peace Corps began many years ago. As a child, I was enamored by John F. Kennedy’s call for Peace Corps volunteers. “The hardest job you will ever love.” and all that. The call of politics was waaay stronger however, so this seemed to be an deferred dream. Long after I got politics out of my system, and settled into my law career, my wife Jan transitioned from real estate broker to a new career as a nurse. I would say “Now that at least one of us has skills the Peace Corps would want, let’s volunteer after we retire.” Jan had an interest in the Peace Corps in her youth, but did not share it as a “retirement ambition”. I vicariously followed the blog of my niece Britta, while she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia.

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Welcome

In June, 2015 I begin a 27 month commitment to the Peace Corps, stationed in Uganda as an “Agri-business” Volunteer for farmers, which make up 80% of the population. I hope you will find my blog to be interesting, informative and entertaining. I’ve turned off public commenting, but feel free to contact me here with any questions or comments.

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– Charles