We woke up on our first morning in Nairobi at about 5:00 am because of the 5 hour time difference from Shanghai. RY had already told me that he intends to do a lot of the cooking during...

First Impressions The first thing I noticed about Nairobi is that it is dusty and the color of the dust is different from other places I’ve been. It is a rich orange-red color, like...

Since we began planning our trip and researching the Airbnb’s that we would stay in, I have been thinking deeply about the concept of “home”. In my life, I have lived in about 10 different...

Shanghai has been my home for the past seven years, and for comparison, that’s more than half the time I’ve been alive. I’m twelve this year, so I’ve been in Shanghai for a loooooong...

We are preparing to say goodbye to the place our family calls home – where Leo and I met, where we were married, where our children were born, where we did meaningful work and...

The “Blue Box”, a briefcase-sized, hard plastic handheld case, is one item that every Peace Corps volunteer will never forget. Each “Blue Box” contains a variety of medicines, syringes,...