When I got home to US, I was brushing my teeth and my tongue was black. It was the last little scare from Suriname. No big deal, just a reaction to insane levels of antibiotics. I had to keep taking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peace Corps
Diabla wanted to go home the day we arrived in Suriname. She hated it the entire time we were there. It made me enjoying it difficult. One day, I decided to make peach cobbler. I looked at the firepit and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the Capitan’s daughter’s biggie feryari (birthday- I think she was 35?), they had fried rice and it was really tasty and had little pieces of meat in it. I found out it was monkey when they pointed to a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the saddest moment I had in my time of service. Once a week, we got to talk to Volunteers in other villages. I was so excited to talk with my friends and made a joke about talking in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…and then I went Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now. I fashioned a spear, skewered the frog several times. I burned it in a campfire for good measure and hucked the carcass into the jungle behind my hut. I was done.
After flinging the frog out of my swim trunks, life moved on. I reached under the stove to turn on the gas and that same frog was sitting on the handle. Scared the crap out of me! It jumped away,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a thing with frogs in Suriname. That was the hardest part, not the hardships, but the little heart attacks that happened whenever you relaxed. I wanted to go for a swim. With my shorts halfway up my legs,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Suriname is home to many of the largest animals. Most of them are horrible. World’s largest frog that has babies that gestate in its skin? Yup. I could’ve done without EVER knowing that. Some things I just won’t draw.
Milk’s pretty impossible to come by in the jungle. On our first visit to a duty station (Corneliskondre), we had fish one night. The SUR1 just ate the whole dang thing. No thanks.
The villagers were pretty cool about sharing food with us. They probably thought we were starving to death. One day, I was handed a plate with a bright pink hunk of meat quivering on it. I politely asked “Who is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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