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Welcome to beesfly.com, Chad's spot on the web.

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Thanks for stopping by Beesfly.com. This place is aimed to keep interested friends and family updated to my adventures here in The Gambia. Though, being the internet and all, anyone is welcome to browse around and see what can be seen. So welcome, whom ever you might be.

While currently the website appears to be a shrine to my Peace Corps experience, I in no way want to be one of those people whom define there life’s existence on their Peace Corps experience. To me that is just a step less pathetic than defining ones life by their high school football career. Instead when my time here is finished its finished, when I am old and retired I wont be rolling around the nursing home trying to pick-up the hot new grandma on the floor with a story of pulling leaches off my eyelids in Africa. However, till sometime around August 2008 my life this crazy messed up Peace Corps experience, so will be this website.

After an almost year long application process, I arrived in The Gambia on July 7th 2006. My first three months were spent in a small training village (Bumari) learning local language and how to operate in a completely different environment. Once training was finished I was sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) and moved to my current site in Pakalinding where I spend most of my time teaching.

I make no claims to the quality or interest of what is written here. I do try and keep things as interesting as possible, not wanting to turn my writings into a travel journal of “I did this, then I ate this, then I went here…then, then, then…”, while at the same time not pointlessly rambling on about hippy thoughts of termite social structures as they scamper across my floor. So, If you sit there and read all of my posts up to this point and subsequently get pissed you wasted two hours of your life, I don’t want to hear about it.

Please remember that the thoughts and opinions expressed here are mine and not that of Peace Corps. Meaning that if you want a censored version of a Peace Corps experience try the official website, you can get a nice picture of how every day for two years the sun is shining and life is perfect. Here, at this site, you get a picture of my time as a Peace Corps volunteer, whom just like everyone else in the world has good days and bad days. However, every day good or bad, when I lay falling asleep at night I am glad to be here and be having this experience.

Lastly…. if you are related in any way to Peace Corps administration, remember that I am completely full of crap and that all of my stores here are fictional.

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