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	<title>Amie's Adventures Abroad</title>
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	<description>I sold my soul to the Peace Corps.</description>
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		<title>A girls camp - With your help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Family,
Manahona! Greetings from Madagascar! Things are going petty well out here on this tropical island (though it is amazingly cold, what happened to the tropical paradise bit?) I have been in my village for just over a year now and attempted and failed at many projects. While all these failures have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/07/17/a-girls-camp-with-your-help/</link>
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		<title>One Year and Counting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well here I am over one year into my Peace Corps Service in Madagascar, and less then a year from coming home. Reaching the one-year mark was a moment of triumph and reflection. Triumph because there were so many days and months were I was ready to throw it all in and I thought I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/07/10/one-year-and-counting/</link>
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		<title>Athletes Foot Gone Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Island of Madagascar is full of all kinds of amazing things that are found no where else in the world; lemurs, baobab trees, and the plague. Remember that disease that ravaged Europe during the Middle Ages killing thousands every day and caused cultural stagnantation. So many people died and people were no longer able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/06/06/athletes-foot-gone-bad/</link>
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		<title>Sorry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh lord has it been a long time since I have updated this blog, and I blame it all on Joe. My brother came to visit me for the month of May and it was an absolutely fabulous time, it just kept me busier than I usually am most months so I haven’t had the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/05/31/sorry/</link>
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		<title>Laughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In America Laughter is a sound of joy and happiness, occasionally it signals fear or uncertainty but the majority of the time people laugh for good reasons. There are all kinds of studies that show how laughter makes you healthier, it reduces your stress levels and releases endorphins unfortunately I have come to hate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/04/28/laughter/</link>
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		<title>With Eyes Closed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can tell a lot about a country by its transportation system. In America we  value individualism and thus the car is king and we have built a country to serve it. And like everything else about Madagascar the transportation system is a messy hodgepodge of solutions held together by pure will and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/04/17/with-eyes-closed/</link>
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		<title>Ants in the Tea, Weevils in the Flour and Lemurs in the Roof</title>
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Things are good at site these days and I think I have finally learned to deal with a lot of the wildlife that has decided to take up co-residence with me. I still find a lot of the little buggers really annoying but at least they don’t gross me out and make me screech like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/03/21/ants-in-the-tea-weevils-in-the-flour-and-lemurs-in-the-roof/</link>
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		<title>Really, Seriously?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To my joy (and some days despair) the farmers cooperative I work with recently elected a new president, the former secretary Jean Marie, and things are finally starting to get done. Suddenly I am flooded with requests, I spent nine months beating down doors and beating my head against a brick wall trying to figure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/03/16/really-seriously/</link>
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		<title>Cyclones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again I am stuck in Tana because of a cyclone, and getting mixed messages about when I can go home. The cyclone hit the island yesterday a bit north of Tamatave as a category 4 storm (worse than hurricane Katrina), which I am guessing means some pretty bad damage, but as the cell phone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/02/18/cyclones/</link>
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		<title>Why We are Poor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a story that was told to a fellow Peace Corps about why Madagascar is poor and other countries are not. I cannot validate the truth of this story, I am simply the reporter. This is how the story goes:
A long long time ago God told all the people of the world to come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amie.dreamformula.net/2008/02/16/why-we-are-poor/</link>
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