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My Years in the Early Peace Corps

Ethiopia, 1965-1966
  • ISBN-13: 9780761873020
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: HAMILTON BOOKS
  • By Sonja Krause Goodwin
  • Price: AUD $45.99
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  • Local release date: 17/09/2021
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biography: general [BG]
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The author describes her second year as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching Chemistry in the Gondar Health College in Gondar, Ethiopia, a branch of Haile Selassie I University where she lectured, taught laboratory courses, and mixed solutions for her laboratory courses. The students were not prepared for the classroom and she delves into her efforts to motivate them. The college was also the local hospital and she describes her interactions with many physicians she met working at the hospital - mostly expatriates. She also describes her vacation travels during that time in and around Ethiopia, and also to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. She visited several game parks and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Goodwin also writes about her interactions fellow college teachers, Peace Corps volunteers, and Ethiopians. She describes several instances of anti-Peace Corps agitation in Ethiopia, especially its effect on the local secondary school.
Sonja Krause Goodwin is professor emeritus of chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Preface for Volume 2 Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1: First Impressions, August 7-18, 1965 Chapter 2: Summer Leave: Ethiopia Part, August 19-26, 1965 Chapter 3: Summer Leave: East Africa Part 1, August 27-September 12, 1965 Chapter 4: East Africa, Part 2, September 12-19, 1965 Chapter 5: Getting Started in Gondar, September 20-October 7, 1965 Chapter 6: Teaching in Gondar, October 8-30, 1965 Chapter 7: Visits and Teaching, October 31-November 28, 1965 Chapter 8: Gondar Without Joyce, November 29-December 30, 1965c Chapter 9: End of the First Semester, December 31, 1965-February 2, 1966 Chapter 10: Spring Vacation, February 3-18, 1966 Chapter 11: Start of the Second Semester, February 18-March 23, 1966 Chapter 12: Anti-Peace Corps Agitation, March 24-April 17, 1966 Chapter 13: Teaching and Peace Corps Volunteer Problems, April 18-May 15, 1966 Chapter 14: Last Month, May 16-June 20, 1966 Epilogue Glossary About the Author
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