So I think this will be my last post before the year is out. Tomorrow I am off to Mali. I will be there for two weeks. I am returning on the 22nd. Next, we have Christmas and New Year's and a birthday. I will be very busy with all of this. So I thought that for the people who read this I would talk about completing my first year of service in PC. So when I first arrived to The Gambia I didn't know what to expect; I still don't. I am able to kind of speak my language. The people here are incredible. Some of the kindest human beings out there. I was placed with a great host family. My projects are slowly coming together. I made a lot of good friends here over this year. The PC experience is what I have always been looking for, it feels like one large family. Life is good. I have read lot since being in The Gambia and here are the books I have read:
1. No One Gets Out of Here Alive - Danny Sugarman and Jerry Hopkins
2. All The Strange Hours - Loren Eiesley
3. Blood River - Tim Butcher
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
5. In Dubious Battle - John Steinbech
6. In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
7. A Burnt-Out Case - Graham Greene
8. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
9. About a Boy - Nick Hornby
10. The Great Escape - Kati Marton
11. The Wizard of the Nile - Matthew Greene
12. Welcome to Hell - Colin Martin
13. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
14. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
15. Post Office - Charles Bukowski
16. I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
17. The Zanzibar Chest - Adian Hartley
18. Heart of Darkness - Joesph Conrad
19. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
20. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
21. Naked - David Sedaris
22. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
23. Posioned Wells - Nicholas Shaxson
24. Dubliners - James Joyce
25. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
26. A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
27. Don't Go There - Peter Greenberg
28. A Continent for the Taking - Howard W. French
29. The Back Country - Gary Synder
30. The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
31. Fargo Rock City - Chuck Klosterman
32. The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
33. Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz
34. Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs - Chuck Klosterman
35. The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy
36. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzergearld
37. The Subterreans - Jack Kerouac
38. Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
39. Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
40. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
41. The Mystic Masseur - V. S. Naipaul
42. The Night Country - Loren Eiesley
43. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
44. Visions of Gerard - Jack Kerouac
45. Blue Clay People - William Powers
46. The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan
47. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
48. No Longer at Ease - Chinua Achebe
49. A Discourse by Three Drunkards on the Government - Nakae Chomin
50. Islam, A Mosaic, Not a Monolith - Vartan Gregorian
51. Maggie Cassidy - Jack Kerouac
52. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
53. Sweet Thursday - John Steinbech
54. The First Man - Albert Camus
55. The Beat Motel - Barry Miles
56. The Book of Honor - Ted Gup
57. What We Say Goes - Noam Chomsky
58. First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung
59. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
60. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
61. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
62. Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski
63. A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
64. The Immense Journey - Loren Eiesely
65. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
66. Catch-22 - Joesph Heller
67. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgav
68. The Memory of Old Jack - Wendell Berry
69. Songs of the Doomed - Hunter S. Thompson
70. A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
71. Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
72. Dream Story - Arthur Schnitzler
73. Captain's Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
74. Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks
75. Half the Sky - Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
76. White Nights - Fyodor Destoyevsky
77. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
78. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
79. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
80. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
So yeah, I read a lot of this year. I want to make a New Year's Res. I hope to write more and to write better blogs. Until Next Year! Much Love to All.
