Having spent a few weeks with my family (backpacking and bicycling), and a marvelous week in LA hugging my friends, it is down to the final countdown. What does one pack for 27 months? Just how unbearable will the un-airconditioned 110 degree heat be? All I know is that I will be working as an agricultural extension agent (as vague to me as it is to you), in a place that will have no electricity and no running water, and that I will be speaking French and Bambara. The details will get filled in later. For now, I'm wondering how many pairs of socks?
About Me
- Jessie
- Jessie is in Burkina Faso on a Fulbright fellowship. She is doing dissertation research for her PhD in Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is studying the social dimensions of Bt cotton production - one of the only GMO crops currently being grown in Africa. Jessie has a BA in documentary film production and international relations from USC, and an MA in sustainable development from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali from 2007 to 2009, where she worked with cotton farmers in the Sikasso region.
This blog does not reflect the views of the United States government or the Peace Corps or anybody but myself.