There is sometimes a system of bureaucracy that becomes so imbedded in a people that it eventually takes root in the very culture,...

If there were a movie made about my life, there would be no shortage of literary irony, the state in which the viewer or reader sees the...

Sometimes we look back in the history of our human race and we find a man so unusually gifted and whose story so absurdly bizarre that we...

The weekend before Ash Wednesday, the Fulbrighters and I decided to go out and see Mantasoa, a small resort village along an artificial...

Contrary to popular belief, Ash Wednesday is not actually a Holy Day of Obligation in the Catholic Church. That means that you’re not...

The summer going into my senior year of college, my plans to study in France were spoiled by a global pandemic. Instead, I resided in the...

Now that school has finally settled into a regular schedule, I’ve had less time to explore the city of Tana. Fortunately, due to the...

Food is always one of those topics that people are interested in when it comes to travel. And I think this is because we in the United...

Tana prepared for two days for the arrival of cyclone Batsirai, a category 4 cyclone that was supposed to absolutely destroy the eastern...

It’s not that difficult to get around the United States in most places. In rural areas, the majority of the population own their own...

School this week was canceled because the first cyclone of the year swept through Madagascar beginning on Saturday. Cyclones are pretty...

I would be lying to you if I told you that I just got back from the end of my first week of school. This is mostly because I got back...

We often debate a lot about the state of infrastructure in the United States and how terrible, or in some places, good, it is. Those of...

There is a line in the DreamWorks’ animated film Madagascar where the king of the lemurs, King Julian, looks at the New York Zoo animals...

The other day we went out into rural Madagascar. After leaving the Lemur Park, I had the great idea of visiting what the Malagasy call a...

School doesn’t begin until January. Needless to say, my colleagues and I have had a lot of time to explore Tana and become assimilated...

A question I get often is whether I would be spending Christmas with lemurs. As tempting at the thought was, I did not actually spend...

This past Saturday, Megan and I were invited to witness the graduation/project presentation contest at Tana’s Foreign Language Learning...

It’s easy to deduce from my last blog post that Megan and I are quite popular amongst the English-speaking communities. Already, her and...

The United States has a lot of foreign policies that may, at first, appear to be rather useless, expensive, and sometimes...