13 August

Tomorrow I'll be leaving Mazembeni for the final time this summer/winter, and it's the 49th night since the first night we slept in this house. Seven weeks in the village was long enough for us to have made some close friends, and to feel sadness upon leaving all these people behind to return to our normal lives in places far more wealthy ( Read more... )

Friday August 3-6, 2012

All of my thoughts on the different approaches and philosophies of development have come and gone, lighting up sporadically in my head throughout the day, and so I feel that I must type them out to grasp and collect all that I've gathered through my work and experiences here, and everything else that I've read or heard or ( Read more... )