When was the last time you uprooted your life and moved to another country with different customs, culture, language, food—the whole works? Most Peace Corps Volunteers take the journey once, maybe twice. But my friend Allister has done it an extremely rare three times—to Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Uganda—and I made a graphic novel to show the most exciting parts. It's called "Welcome to the Village: The transformative journey of a three-time Peace Corps Volunteer across Africa"). Check out what I think are the funniest and the most culturally exciting pages below.
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I’m fairly certain my own mom would be permanently stuck on #1
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Love that Rwandan take on vampires among school children
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Let's be honest: This is probably still many times better than I would ever be at learning Kinyarwanda
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When two awkward mammals meet
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Yep, we in the U.S. sure have a particular way of treating animals like our own fur babies. Maybe not so much elsewhere
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I like to think this baboon was telling him to stop gawking
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Apparently, the kids were so focused on their exams and so immune to distractions that a rampaging loose goat was not even worth glancing at
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But it's not ALL jokes. There's a ton of cultural learning and even some terrifying and tragic moments
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Check out the book here.
And just a fun little reveal video I made out of one of the envelopes I received from Ethiopia
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