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Peace Corps Volunteer "the big cactus" writes: I bing bang boogied across the boarder to Mali along with all the other volunteers
"Virtually every NGO, Volunteer, and missionary has evactuated the country and the embassies are running skeleton crews in Conakry. We're in limbo right now and there are plenty of things to think about and time to marinate. Yesterday was a pretty tough day for me...I don't really believe in pouting in public and there isn't much privacy with 90 people packed together. Guinea can cut pretty deep. I guess it's crushing because even the kids who do everything right really don't have any options. If they finish school, don't have kids, and stay healthy they do what? There are no jobs. There is no legal protection. The future doesn't even look all that promising. Here you have kids who learn in a second language with no classroom supplies and teachers who show up occasionally. You have hours of chores to do before and after school and you're done studying when the sun goes down. Then some goofy white guy from the Peace Corps shows up...his French sucks, he's never taught before but hey and least he gives a shit and he'll show up everyday. Then "your" military guns down 157 people at a peaceful demonstration and that goofy Yagouba Bah boogies right out of your country along with all 90 of his buddies. I'll be fine. I'm going to get placed in another country and my adventure continues after a couple days of pouting. But man. Guinea is going backwards and the people I know deserve so much better."
Peace Corps Volunteer "the big cactus" writes: I bing bang boogied across the boarder to Mali along with all the other volunteers
October 10, 2009
Well, that escalated quickly.
Caption: Guinean police arrest a protester in front of the biggest stadium in the capital Conakry during a protest banned by Guinea's ruling junta on September 28. The United States condemned Tuesday the "brazen and inappropriate use of force" by Guinea's ruling junta, after scores were killed in a crackdown on an opposition rally. Photo: AFP/File/Seyllou
Well oh well oh well. I bing bang boogied across the boarder to Mali along with all the other volunteers.
Virtually every NGO, Volunteer, and missionary has evactuated the country and the embassies are running skeleton crews in Conakry. We're in limbo right now and there are plenty of things to think about and time to marinate.
Yesterday was a pretty tough day for me...I don't really believe in pouting in public and there isn't much privacy with 90 people packed together. Guinea can cut pretty deep.
I guess it's crushing because even the kids who do everything right really don't have any options. If they finish school, don't have kids, and stay healthy they do what? There are no jobs. There is no legal protection. The future doesn't even look all that promising.
Here you have kids who learn in a second language with no classroom supplies and teachers who show up occasionally. You have hours of chores to do before and after school and you're done studying when the sun goes down.
Then some goofy white guy from the Peace Corps shows up...his French sucks, he's never taught before but hey and least he gives a shit and he'll show up everyday.
Then "your" military guns down 157 people at a peaceful demonstration and that goofy Yagouba Bah boogies right out of your country along with all 90 of his buddies.
I'll be fine. I'm going to get placed in another country and my adventure continues after a couple days of pouting. But man. Guinea is going backwards and the people I know deserve so much better.
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