Introduction

This blog is mine. The opinions expressed here are not those of the Peace Corps nor of the U.S. Government.

I’ve found keeping in touch with the world from distant corners of southeast Africa to be tougher than expected. Internet access is limited. And when I do get connected, I barely have the bandwidth to open an e-mail. Hopefully posting here occasionally will keep me from completely dropping off everyone’s radar screens over the next couple of years (tough to e-mail everyone when Gmail works too slowly to auto-complete e-mail addresses for me…).
Posts will likely be few and far between. I’ll be lucky to upload one picture. But hopefully I can at least keep everyone up to date on my general whereabouts and happenings as a “malungu” in Mozambique.

Over the next couple of years, I will be living in Mozambique while working as a math/physics teacher through the Peace Corps. I am training in Namaacha, Maputo Province (southern Mozambique, on the Swazi and South African borders) from October 1, 2011 until December 9,2011. During this time, I can receive mail at the following address:

Derek Roberts, PCV
Corpo da Paz/US Peace Corps
C.P. 4398
Maputo, Mozambique

After December 9th, I will be sent to site where I should stay for two full years (until December, 2013). I am still waiting on final site placement. I will provide information/address when it becomes available.