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Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Chrissy Hart, PCV
Corps de la Paix Americain
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Burkina Faso
West Africa
Corps de la Paix Americain
01 BP 6031 Ouagadougou 01
Burkina Faso
West Africa
Mark all letters "Par Avion/Air Mail" and mark and send all packages "Air Parcel Post." Packages tend to take 4-6 weeks to arrive, letters a bit more (and, by the way, mail of any sort is deeply, indescribably, totally and completely appreciated).
Cell Phone Number
(+226) 76.65.49.77
Links
All The News That's Fit
- 2008 HDI for Burkina Faso: 176 of 177 coutnries
- 2008 UN Development Program's Human Development Report/Index
- 8/30: Warlord says he played part in Burkina Faso coup
- 8/11: Illegal miner killed in Burkina Faso
- 7/11: Burkina Faso: Muslim Leaders Agree to Promote Family Planning
- 5/8: Burkina Faso: Fresh Approach to Street Children
- 4/8: Burkina Faso: General Strike Over Cost of Living
- 4/4: West Africa: Hungry And Angry, West Africans Say No to Continuously Rising Food Prices
- 4/2: Burkina Faso: Children Educate Children About HIV in UN-Supported Project
- 3/17: Burkina Faso: Cost of Living Coalition Threatens More Action
- 3/16: Burkina Faso: New Protests Against High Food Prices Planned
- 3/10: Burkina Faso: 'Historic Deed' to Avert Border War
- 3/6: Burkina Faso: Rights Abuses Perhaps the Cost of Rising Prices
- 3/4: Burkina Faso: Human Rights Concerns in Wake of Mass Arrests
- 3/4: Burkina Faso: Low Cost Meningitis Vaccine Developed
- 2/4: African women slam abuse of females with HIV/AIDS
- 10/26: Burkina Faso: Sanitation Shambles
- 10/16: Burkina Faso: Cotton Producers Celebrate WTO Ruling Against U.S. Subsidies
- 10/16: Burkina Faso: The Struggle Continues 20 Years After Sankara Was Assassinated
- Ibrahim Index of African Governance
What I've Read
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
- Orlando - Virginia Woolf
- Dry - Augusten Burroughs
- The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life - Faulkner Fox
- The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
- Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
- Islands in the Stream - Ernest Hemingway
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Room With A View - E.M. Forster
- Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
- Songs of Enchantment - Ben Okri
- The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
- Global Shadows: Africa in the New Neoliberal World Order - James Ferguson
- The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
- Aké: The Years of Childhood - Wole Soyinka
- The Secret History of the American Empire - John Perkins
- Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writing 1985 - 2000 - Paul Theroux
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
- Woman At Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi
- the country ahead of us, the country behind - David Guterson
- Disobedience - Jane Hamilton
- Red China Blues - Jan Wong
- Everything is Illuminated - Jonathon Safran Foer
- Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta - Gore Vidal
- Sammy's Hill - Kristin Gore
- Snow - Orhan Pamuk
- Sophie's Choice - William Styron
- Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy - Carlos Eire
- West of Kabul, East of New York - Tamim Ansary
- The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer
- Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
- Women of Sand and Myrrh - Hanan Al-Shaykh
- The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability - Paul Hawken
- Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Shalimar The Clown - Salman Rushdie
- Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown - Paul Theroux
- A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
- Anthem - Ayn Rand
- Laughter In The Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer In Africa - Tanya Shaffer
- The Heart Of The Matter - Graham Greene
- White Man's Grave - Richard Dooling
- Why I Write - George Orwell
- The End of Poverty - Jeffrey Sachs
- Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms - Salman Rushdie
- Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now - Maya Angelou
- A Man of the People - Chinua Achebe
- Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
- Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
- When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down - Joan Morgan
- The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Cider House Rules - John Irving
- For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes - Maya Angelou
- A Room Of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
- The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime - Mark Haddon
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
- The Famished Road - Ben Okri
- The Piano Shop On The Left Bank - Thad Carhart
- No Longer At Ease - Chinua Achebe
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor
- Love Invents Us - Amy Bloom
- Anthills of the Savanah - Chinua Achebe
- A Widow For One Year - John Irving
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
- Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Night - Elie Weisel
- The Short Stories: The First 49 Stories - Ernest Hemingway
- New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- a season in heaven: true tales from the road to kathmandu - David Tomroy
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- The World According to Garp - John Irving
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
- The Jane Austen Book Club – Karen Joy Fowler
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven – Sherman Alexie
- Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Beet Queen – Louise Erdrich
- Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men – Souad
- Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier – Alexandra Fuller
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl – John Chernoff
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
- This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Fury – Salman Rushdie
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- White Noise - Don DeLillo
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- A Separate Peace – John Knowles
- Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood – Alexandra Fuller
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Green Hills of Africa – Ernest Hemingway
- The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
- A Map of the World – Jane Hamilton
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
- Nine Stories – J.D. Salinger
- Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Wish List
- Ground Coffee ('cause I now own a percolator!)
- Magazines (Utne Reader, The Nation, New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, People - yes, I'm serious)
- Crystal Light (esp. Peach Iced Tea, Rasp. Iced Tea, Pink Lemonade)
- Gum (Orbit, minty flavors)
- Granola/Energy Bars (Nature Valley, Luna and Clif bars are always a hit)
- M & Ms
- Sauce/Seasoning Packets for Pasta and Rice (cheesy stuff, spicy stuff, pesto, etc.)
- Kraft Parmesan Cheese
- Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Nuts (cashews, pistachios, almonds, especially, but not peanuts, we've got loads of those)
- Dried Fruit
- Tea (black teas, esp. chai)
- Nice Pens (Pilot G-2 in Blue, Black, and Green)
- Pictures (of you! because I miss you!)
- Bath/Body stuff (esp. facewash, body wash, fun shampoo/conditioner)
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The content of this website is the intellectual and creative property of Christine D. Hart. The thoughts and opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent or reflect the views of the Peace Corps or the United States Government.