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Josh H
@jhimmel
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Peace Corps Education Volunteer
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Liberia
Website
https://sixthdegreenorth.wordpress.com/
Created
2018-05-31 18:43
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jhimmel
liberia
2020-05-01 14:33
Escapades during the Family Visit to Liberia
A collection of experiences from my family's visit to Liberia
$ 2.140
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jhimmel
liberia
2020-04-27 14:14
Sharing Families
Bringing my biological half to meet my Liberian cultural half.
$ 3.844
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jhimmel
liberia
2020-04-24 15:11
The Liberian Banking Crisis
The Crisis before COVID-19 that shook Liberia up.
$ 6.204
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jhimmel
education
2020-04-20 17:38
A Root must Touch Soil to Grow
A new way of learning in Liberia, West Africa. From the branches down.
$ 42.397
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jhimmel
liberia
2020-04-15 20:27
To the west we Wander
The layout of my second site as a Peace Corps Volunteer
$ 2.774
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jhimmel
africa
2019-07-20 21:06
Here and There
Long post... lots to catch up on Begin Journal Entry Nails in the coffin. Buried, and final. Angel died last night. She almost reached 3 years old. Every day I spent with her, playing, trying to show her
$ 0.450
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jhimmel
hiking
2019-03-09 17:45
To the Roof of Liberia
“I'm down at parking and the guy here says car is the way to go, should be 5 hours the way the road's looking," I relayed to Dan, a former US Marine who disarmed IEDs for a half-dozen years. “Alright.
$ 0.982
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jhimmel
squid
2019-03-09 15:01
Culinary Adventures pt. 2
Round 1 – In the culinary corner, weighing in at 1 pound 12 inches, the most cliched crustacean in the ocean, the heavily armored Rock Lobster! Accompanied by his loyal henchman, Mr. Slipknot, the Slipper
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jhimmel
insect
2019-02-24 15:52
Culinary Encounters Pt. 1
Adventure is not excluded from the home – some adventures take place in within a 5-foot radius of the kitchen. Several culinary rendezvous have been nothing but adventurous. It all started with the boisterous
$ 1.429
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jhimmel
peace
2018-12-20 12:34
On the Scholastic Front...
To evaluate my 10th and 11th grade students I am employing Performance-Based Grading tactics – a favorite among Peace Corps teachers in small-to-medium sized classrooms. It is, in my opinion, a forward
$ 0.776
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jhimmel
africa
2018-10-20 10:29
Educational Entrance
At my school I am responsible for teaching 10th and 11th grade Physics as well as 10th grade Biology. My classes are not large – only 20 students in each. We meet in the afternoon as classroom space is
$ 1.172
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jhimmel
africa
2018-10-11 20:55
Upriver for Reef
One quiet morning, my friend James and I went on a mission to harvest bamboo from a stand deep in the mangroves up River Trehn. He needed the reef to build a nursery for his newly procured cabbage seeds
$ 1.918
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jhimmel
africa
2018-10-03 20:35
Standing Trainee, Sitting Volunteer
A week before arriving becoming the White Man in Grebo Land... Our final nights of training reunited us in the dorms of Doe Palace. We embraced the close quarters living in anticipation of looming loneliness.
$ 2.798
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jhimmel
africa
2018-09-29 21:04
A Spicy Welcome
Driving to site in the all-terrain Land Cruiser was a bumpy two hours during which we drove through two streams and over one by way of a wood-plank bridge. It was quite engaging; tactically racing over
$ 2.265
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jhimmel
africa
2018-08-13 17:21
On the Pepper Coast
The Sunday morning after America's independence day, we grouped into cars to roll downslope to the coastal capital city of Liberia. Monrovia it's called - named after James Monroe, the founding father
$ 5.933
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jhimmel
africa
2018-07-05 12:50
The honeymoon month...
… smells, temperature, noise, interactions. Life is fresh, exciting, and waiting to be explored. Time here is already moving fast, but each day brings a new scene or friend. My inaugural blog post was
$ 3.085
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jhimmel
thursdaygreen
2018-06-21 16:58
Green living all around me #ThursdayGreen
Liberia's capital city of Monrovia sees the highest rainfall of any in the world. These rains cast inland to feed some of the greenest scenes I have known. Here is my entry for #Thursdaygreen.
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jhimmel
africa
2018-06-19 10:25
The Children of Sinyea
In the village of Sinyea, Liberia - a kilometer north of the blooming Phebe Junction - the young children have no reservations and few obligations. Stiff cement homes are set in the verdant, overgrown
$ 0.828
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jhimmel
africa
2018-06-01 22:42
Here it begins… Peace Corps Liberia
6 Degrees North of the Equator in the West African country of Liberia. 24 hours of flights for 27 months in the unknown. Luggage checked and expectations set: 50 lbs on the dot and 45 fellow volunteers
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