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Musee Vivant – The Petting Zoo of Things That Should Not be Petted: Africa Day 10
Have you ever wanted to pet a leopard? What about cuddle a chimp? Or feed a crocodile? Well, if you ever find yourself at Musee Vivant in Burundi, you can do all of those things. While we were in Bujumbura, Burundi, my brother-in-law and sister-in-law took us and their kids to the local zoo, which…
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Color Magic with Ashley Bustamante
On a recent escape to Northern Arizona, I devoured Vivid by Ashley Bustamante, a YA fantasy book about dark secrets at a boarding school for teens with a talent for color magic. The school teaches red and blue magic, but yellow magic, which involves mind control, is banned. But are the yellow magic people really…
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Screen Printing! Africa Day 9
While in Burundi, East Africa visiting family last summer, my sister-in-law Joy taught me how to screen print! I’m not sure if Burundi has screen printing shops (I imagine they exist, but probably not many), but this undertaking is an example of the ingenuity embodied by expats (and immigrants) around the world who want to…
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Touring African Hospitals: Africa Day 8
Why move to the poorest country in the world when you could be living the American Dream? That’s the big question people have for doctors in African hospitals who give up their high-earning practices back home to live and work in Burundi. And there’s a good answer, too. While we were in Burundi last summer,…
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