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RPCVs, submit your humorous PCV latrine stories
to "Americans Do Their Business Abroad: The
Peace Corps Latrine Reader," a project by
Steve McNutt and Jake Fawson. Deadline: Sept 15,
2006. More details.
Essay:
Water
Rachel Schneller (Mali 1996–98), 1998
Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award winner.
Thanks to Peace
Corps Writers for the permission to reprint.
This is a beautiful short essay, a lovely description
of that amazing skill that all African women seem
to possess.
Paul was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote D'Ivoire
"around the time of the Warren Harding administration",
and worked for USAID in Guinea in the 1990's and
wrote a series of infamously funny booklets with
anecdotes about life in Guinea. He has generously
given us permission to reprint them here. All
articles are copyright Paul Rippey and are not
to be reprinted without his permission.. All files
are in Adobe Acrobat format. (click here to download
Adobe Acrobat reader for free)
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Tole
c'est pas tole a D.C.
(si M. Rove le dit) |
La Pagaille (PCV Satirical Newsletters) |
Each file is a PDF file, viewable in Adobe
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The smaller
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La Pagaille
January 2003
Show me your receipt,
~itch.!!! |
1.1MB |
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La Pagaille
November 2001
Welcome to Guinea! |
3.5MB
1.0MB
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La Plagiaire
Summer 2001 |
1.6MB
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La Pagaille
April 2001
Happy Easter! |
3.1MB
1.4MB
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La Pagaille
November 2000
La W. Pagaille, Jr. |
1.2MB
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La Pagaille
September 2000
Hello, my name is Charles.
I'll be your parasite for the day. |
1.5 MB
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La Pagaille
January 2000
January 1900
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1.4MB |
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La Pagaille
September 1999
Welcome to Guinea!
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1.2MB |
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La Pagaille
April 1999
Jeanette Likes It!
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2.1MB
1.5MB |
- Title
page & Credits
- A
Jerusalem, Tole c'est pas Tole!
- Guinea
haiku
- Top
10 possible explanations for my complete
and total lack of a love life
- Famous
Quotations, Guinea Edition
- Guinean
Space Station
- Top
ten lines from Star Wars that apply
to life in Guinea
- Letters
from our admirers
- Guinean
Drivers Exam
- La
Pagaille Index
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The
Lame Duck
1998
La souffrance est
un conseil |
1.6MB |
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Bintu's
Secret
January 1998
Ted Kaczinsky: PCV? |
7.3MB
2.4MB |
- Title
page
- Defense
Redefines Insanity
- The Insider: page
1, page
2, page
3
- English-Malinke
Travel Dictionary
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OoO! June, 1998
Former PCV McKenna
implores: "Go home now, while you
still can!" |
1.3MB
1.1MB
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Wawa Tribune,
May 1998
Pages and pages of
twisted, deviant behavior. |
1.9MB |
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La Pagaille
Jan-March, 1998
Disgusted Reader Calls
Peace Corps Guinea's Volunteer Journal
"La Pagaille"
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1.6 MB |
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The Newsletter Formerly
Known as AWA
Sept. 1997
Conakrazy!
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2.0MB
1.7MB |
- Conakr-azy!
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Welcome to Guinea English Lesson
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The "Ro-tic"
wedding by Rolf Engelbrecht
'97 Stage T-shirt
by Herb Caudill
Third World Driving
Tips
Interview with a Roof
Rider
Ways that RPCV's Know
that they have Readjusted
Albert G. Finney's Description of Service (DOS) page
1, page 2
Bienvenue, Cracker! Hints for Guineans on how to
interact with foreign visitors. Page
1, Page 2, Page
3.
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