Stories from my time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Vanuatu (Views expressed here our solely those of the author and do not reflect those of the US Government)
Being at any school has its challenges. One is the leading challenges at my school is having access to easily bring in ready-made classroom resources. To order ones from a store and have them sent to us is simply too expensive to be sustainable. As a result, it can be a challenge to keep learning […]
Read More Upcycling to Create Classroom Resources: Flash CardsToday marks my 2nd year anniversary of being in Vanuatu. A lot has happened in the convening two years. Growth. Intense happiness. Intense sorrow. Confidence building. Self-discovery. I am both the same person and a different person from whom I was when I first stepped on that plane in LAX with a group of 40 […]
Read More Happy 2 Year Anniversary, Vanuatu! 🇻🇺I recently asked some PCVs and RPCVs to let me know what it is that they would want to tell someone who was considering serving in the Peace Corps. The majority of the responses are from volunteers in my country of service, Vanuatu, but there are also a few from volunteers who served elsewhere. Many […]
Read More So You Want to be a Peace Corps Volunteer? Thoughts and Advice from PCVs and RPCVsDisability is very different in Vanuatu than it is in the US in many ways, but in other ways it is very similar (as should probably be expected). Many of the barriers disabled peoples in the States have fought long and hard battles to tear down are still standing strong here, or are just starting to be discussed.Â
Read More Disability in VanuatuEvery four months Peace Corps Volunteers are supposed to submit a report about what they are doing at site. Along with reporting what you activities you are doing at site, the report contains several questions that work try to get our thoughts and opinions as volunteers. One of these questions is: Finish this sentence: The […]
Read More Finish This Sentence: The one thing I wish Americans knew about my country of service is…It was a hot and balmy Halloween day. I found myself on an island of biting centipedes, coconut crabs, and very large spiders…
Read More Halloween on the IslandYour life is going to be so much more than you can imagine right now – and you have a big imagination. Looking back at you, I am amazed at how fearless you managed to be throughout everything.
Read More Conversations with my 8-Year-Old SelfSeptember 8th is the annual Mother’s Union Day for the Anglican Church of Melanesia. For my Anglican village this is a very busy day of fundraising and entertainment. There was a quite of bit of preparation for the day. Different groups rehearsed for more than a week beforehand on the skits (choreographed group dances) that they wanted […]
Read More Mother’s Union DayAs many of you may or may not know, it can be challenging to get decent quality books into an outer-island school in Vanuatu. There are a lot of international book donation organizations, but very few of them even consider donations here. Plus, the book donations that do make it into the country tend to […]
Read More Naone School Library UpdateFarmer does not sugarcoat the issues either. He tells the reader, and the listeners when he is giving speaches, exactly what the issues are, as well as the potential solutions. He gives his proposals for how we can improve situations, as well as his often dour predictions to what will actually happen.
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Veronica In Vanuatu 