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	<title>Bird on a Bare Branch</title>
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	<description>Attempting to fling a frail song in Mozambique</description>
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		<title>Bright Lights, Big City:  Reverse Culture Shock, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All day today I&#8217;ve been sorting through boxes in my parents&#8217; garage &#8211; stuff that I&#8217;d had in storage in Houston for three years.  One of the boxes I found was full of about ten years&#8217; worth of journals.  Who knew I used to journal so much?  I skimmed through a couple and came across [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=637&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/bright-lights-big-city-reverse-culture-shock-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Oh The Places I&#8217;ve Been</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past seven weeks I&#8217;ve traveled approximately 17,000 miles and slept in over 20 different beds.  Instead of writing about my travels, I&#8217;m posting one photo from each place that hopefully captures the essence of each visit.
Hampshire, England
London, part 1
Brighton, England
 
 
London, part 2
 
 
Detroit, Michigan, part 1

 
 
PJ Hoffmaster State [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=617&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/oh-the-places-ive-been/</link>
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		<title>On the Topic of 2-Ply Toilet Paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many things delighted me upon arrival in the UK, such as fresh berries, Pimm&#8217;s, walking freely outside, clean and efficient public transportation, etc.  But the thing that delighted me most was thick, 2-ply toilet paper!  In my last months in Beira, Shoprite only carried 1-ply t.p.  Finally, right before I left they restocked with 2-ply. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=610&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/on-the-topic-of-2-ply-toilet-paper/</link>
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		<title>Seven Cows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Dutch woman I know here, who is a fabulous storyteller, told this story.  She found it in a book somewhere, but I’m not sure who the original credits go to.  I think it’s fantastic.
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One day a visitor arrived in a village while he was traveling through the countryside.  When this visitor entered the village, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=607&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/seven-cows/</link>
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		<title>The Couch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my housemate and I bought a couch.  It is the retro-ugliest but most comfortable couch I have sat on in Mozambique.  A couch is not a significant thing in many parts of the world.  But to me its significance is beyond what I can probably describe in words.
When Marina and I moved into this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=606&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/the-couch/</link>
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		<title>High Scorer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because this is now an issue here, I feel compelled to add it.  And because most of you are in the States, I feel compelled to add it.  Single people, you will laugh and groan with understanding as you read through it.  Married people, please take notes as you read&#8230;&#8220;Surviving Church as a Single&#8221;.  (Thanks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=599&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/surviving-church-as-a-single/</link>
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		<title>Official Non-Motorized Velocipede Operator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am now the proud owner of a Driver’s License of a Velocipede without a Motor.  In a country where cars can do seemingly whatever they want, I found it hard to keep a straight face when I went to acquire my very serious and very official bicycle documents.
At 8:15 this morning I entered the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=596&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/official-non-motorized-velocipede-operator/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Single Seclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=590&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/single-seclusionut/</link>
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		<title>Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week in class, my students were discussing the roles of men and women in small groups.  One of the questions asked:  &#8220;What do you think men do better than women?  Women do better than men?&#8221;  Two groups presented their responses to this question:
Group 1: Women are better at looking after children.  Men don&#8217;t have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jenabroad.wordpress.com&blog=2133268&post=587&subd=jenabroad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-better/</link>
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		<title>April (or I&#8217;ve Never Written a Poem Before)</title>
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Papaya trees and blue sky,
Coconuts and lemons.
Cool breeze, salty sea,
But mangoes not in season.

Avocadoes, passion fruit.
Brightly-clothed women
Selling banana bunches, tangerines.
But pineapples not in season.
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		<link>http://jenabroad.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/april-or-ive-never-written-a-poem-before/</link>
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