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Bring Uganda Home

Best Blog: PC Uganda, 2017 - 2019

Welcome to "Bring Uganda Home": my blog about my time spent in Uganda as an Education Peace Corps Volunteer from 2016 - 2019.

This blog is definitely a work in progress, but I figured I had better get something up or I'd never get around to doing it.

Please feel free to poke around and enjoy. You are most welcome!

Institutionalized

(For some context, in Peace Corps Uganda, roughly every 6 months of your 2 year service, a new cohort enters the country. This demarcates...

Closer Through Connection

If you've followed my journey and would like to participate in the Peace Corps experience AND help the community you've come to know and...

In Defense of Uganda

In defense of Uganda: Let’s talk about the good. I recently read a Facebook post enumerating the shortcomings of African men and women...

Premature Enlightenment

When you enter Peace Corps, the most sacred word you will hear is "integration". From your first session at pre-service training (PST),...

The Teacher Who Didn't Teach: A Memoir

If I had two words to describe the challenges in Peace Corps, I would say: Existential Crisis. I thought that my second year would be...

D.E.A.R. Day 2018

Another year, another D.E.A.R. Many of the thoughts I had last year about D.E.A.R. Day apply to this year, so I'll keep this short and...

God Loves Uganda

"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls...

One. Year. In.

"When volunteers start, their minds are wrapped around a thousand different words for help, empower, assist, aid, facilitate, uplift. Yet...

Swear Not By the Moon

I'm sorry my blog posts are so inconsistent. A proper apology is supposed to include a way to fix the behavior in the future, but the...

Being A Bad Volunteer

Am I a bad volunteer? Is what I'm doing here meaningful? Am I a disappointment to my community? To myself? I end most days wrestling with...