Turtle Tushies in the Land of Banana Beer, A Peace Corps Memoir

Nonfiction, Travel, Africa, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Anita Pauwels ISBN: 9781942984009
Publisher: Anita Pauwels Publication: May 28, 2015
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Anita Pauwels
ISBN: 9781942984009
Publisher: Anita Pauwels
Publication: May 28, 2015
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

A newly married couple with great teeth leave the comforts of their quiet Texas home to join the Peace Corps and teach inland fish farming in the land-locked East-African country of Burundi.
Turtle Tushies in the Land of Banana Beer is a collection of letters home, edited and structured in story form, of the lessons, laughter, trials, tribulations and personal growth of jimani (Jim and I), alias Hewe (hay-way) and aahh-nnneeee-tah.
Overcoming our slow-moving, slow-talking 'Turtle Tushie' mode of existence, we find an unexpected niche among the friendly, enthusiastic and hard-working people of Burundi.
Join us as we learn to drink banana beer, grapple with motorcycles, bugs, frogs, charcoal-spewing imbabulas, mud, tons of rain, more mud, falling down, getting up, political uncertainties, language and cultural barriers, and search diligently for courageous farmers willing to take a chance with us.
Our farmers are so enthusiastic at sight of their first fish in their first ponds that they run amok, awry and away with the program, constructing ponds on every allowable and appropriate space, working us to a frazzle to keep up.
From trying to fuel the fires of development work our first year, to applying the brakes in the second, we ride the daily emotional and labor-intensive roller coaster to its intense conclusion.
This is simply a story of us: Of love, humor and hard work; Of learning to embrace a culture and a people not our own; Of learning to laugh, deep from the belly, at the simplest and most beautiful things in life.
To our readers--we hope you enjoy our adventure and thank you for coming along for the ride.

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A newly married couple with great teeth leave the comforts of their quiet Texas home to join the Peace Corps and teach inland fish farming in the land-locked East-African country of Burundi.
Turtle Tushies in the Land of Banana Beer is a collection of letters home, edited and structured in story form, of the lessons, laughter, trials, tribulations and personal growth of jimani (Jim and I), alias Hewe (hay-way) and aahh-nnneeee-tah.
Overcoming our slow-moving, slow-talking 'Turtle Tushie' mode of existence, we find an unexpected niche among the friendly, enthusiastic and hard-working people of Burundi.
Join us as we learn to drink banana beer, grapple with motorcycles, bugs, frogs, charcoal-spewing imbabulas, mud, tons of rain, more mud, falling down, getting up, political uncertainties, language and cultural barriers, and search diligently for courageous farmers willing to take a chance with us.
Our farmers are so enthusiastic at sight of their first fish in their first ponds that they run amok, awry and away with the program, constructing ponds on every allowable and appropriate space, working us to a frazzle to keep up.
From trying to fuel the fires of development work our first year, to applying the brakes in the second, we ride the daily emotional and labor-intensive roller coaster to its intense conclusion.
This is simply a story of us: Of love, humor and hard work; Of learning to embrace a culture and a people not our own; Of learning to laugh, deep from the belly, at the simplest and most beautiful things in life.
To our readers--we hope you enjoy our adventure and thank you for coming along for the ride.

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