Category Archives: Congo

Going

By Erin | Published: May 18, 2010
Well, folks, I guess this is about it. Unless I post tomorrow a “Just kidding–was too sick to board the plane!” message. I’m rocking a sore throat and a cough and a whole bunch of tired, but the fever is gone and I’m doing better tonight than I was this morning and the Zicam’s still [...]
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Single Story

By Erin | Published: May 14, 2010
Rachael sent me this video, which I found highly interesting and compelling. It’s a TED talk by Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, and the talk  is titled “The Danger of a Single Story.”
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Packing

By Erin | Published: May 12, 2010
At dinner yesterday, I took my first malaria pill for the trip. Last night, I couldn’t fall asleep and my feet felt really hot and I dreamed I met Lindsay Lohan. I’m not sure if these things are related. I’m almost fully packed. Yana shared a link to this: 10 Days in a Carry-On. I know [...]
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Memories

By Erin | Published: March 16, 2010
The closer Congo gets, the more I want to go someplace else. I’ve been stuck in the house, for the most part, for a week now, and when I’m bored I just troll around travel websites, picking out vacation houses in Key West, looking at hotels in Tokyo, reading travel blogs about Morocco. I’ve got [...]
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Saying Something

By Erin | Published: March 2, 2010
Last night, we watched It Might Get Loud and I thought about art and what it means to struggle and then about important things like sentences and how pretty a black suit can be when set against a backdrop of grass so green it verges on neon. I thought about what it meant to play [...]
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Shots and Pills

By Erin | Published: February 18, 2010
Today, I went to the doctor for malaria meds and to make sure I’m current on all my vaccines. Because I got about four million shots last year, I only had to get flu shots this year. My arms still feel tired and wimpy. Come on, arms, have you no memory? This was nothing! I also [...]
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Driving Through Rwanda

By Erin | Published: February 5, 2010
Tonight I watched Hotel Rwanda again while stuffing envelopes with support letters for the May Congo trip. On the letters are pictures—of Asha, of her baby Faida, of Bishop. Sometimes I feel such a weight, such a weight, like I came back from Congo a hundred pounds heavier. The knowledge of them and what they’ve [...]
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