Bogo

Like Maroua, Bogo has lots of plane trees although now and then people come along and cut them down.  They…

I have now been in Bogo for nearly 2 weeks. If I was trying to summarise in one sentence I…

How is my emotional wellbeing? I haven’t cried yet, but I have had the odd panic attack which is apparently…

I am finally here at the hut in Bogo except it’s not a mud hut, but a small house made…

I wanted to say a bit about the VSO people here. The finance and support officer has the temperament of…

Yesterday I got bitten a lot. I don’t know if this was because it rained. The 6 of us who…

Interestingly, ‘positive thoughts – positive emotions – positive results. We are good people’, was the message of the formal in-country…

I embarrassed myself this morning by not having changed my watch and thinking it was 10am just out the shower…

I underestimated the level of emotional withdrawal needed to take a leap. VSO wrote to offer me a placement as…

30th June 2009, placement offer   Dear Hazel, You have been matched to the attached placement as Institutional Development Advisor…