A Month in The Gambia
I've drafted a few posts for this blog, but none have felt right so I've kept them in the catacombs of Blogger for now; one day those posts may see the light of day, but today I just want to share a bit about my day-to-day in The Gambia over the past month, instead of my other grand musings. For some background, I am spending a year (May 2023 through May 2024) working as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in The Gambia. My site is "in Kombo," which is what rural Gambians call the capital region: I live with a Fula host family in a village called Abuko and commute to an area called Bakau. I work a desk job with the Department of Agriculture, in their office of Monitoring and Evaluation; while we will start going on treks to the provinces in the next couple of months, the first month has focused on developing data collection and reporting tools from the office as I settle into life in The Gambia. A Little About The Gambia The Gambia is the smallest country by land mass i...