The following is an excerpt from a response I wrote to an individual in the Peace Corps Boston office, requesting answers to some generic questions about life as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Education sector. I spent like three hours writing it so I figured it would be good to share it here, whether or not Boston decides to use it for anything.

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…if you come to The Gambia: they’re awful. Besides the fact that there are just a few of them scattered around the country (to my knowledge, there are three in Kombo, and one in Basse), they suffer from more problems than I’ve ever seen with ATMs back home.

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I think I’ve recently, just in the last few days, really discovered some of the “romance” I’ve been hoping to find in an exotic far-away locale through my Peace Corps experience. For months, I’ve been dealing with much of the frustrations with moving into a new place and getting settled, so I see it as something of an important milestone to find myself really just finding myself in awe at so much simple beauty around me.

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It was recently determined that version 2.1.1 of the WordPress software had been compromised by someone with what one can only assume to be malicious intent. As such, I’ve upgraded - again - to the verified 2.1.2 release.

Read the official WordPress release here.

Matt