When I was assigned to the Congo, I had a lot of learning to do as regards the lessons to which we would all be subjected by the Peace Corps. First we served three months in South Carolina (work training), three months in Burundi (language training), and then another three months in the Congo. The [...]
Wednesday, January 13 Another cool night had passed, another morning had come, and it was time to check once again on my ride to Kelle. Linda told me the truck would pick up passengers at the Hydro-Congo station very soon, if it was running at all, for that was the usual routine. We volunteers had [...]
Thursday, January 11, 93 I had walked forty-two of the sixty-three miles from Makoua to Etoumbi, having decided to experience my little part of the Congo with only the clay of the road and the green of the forest and the sounds of bird calls to entertain me while the rising and falling daily sun [...]
