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Bucket Showers and Bathroom Geckos
If you’ve never taken a bucket shower, I would highly recommend it. There’s just something about it that’s so much more refreshing than a “normal” shower. Maybe it’s the physical challenge of it. You can’t just turn on a tap and there you go—you have...
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Between the Mountains and the Sea
I knew Madagascar has mountains, but somehow, I hadn’t realized that there are mountains in the southeast, where I was heading to spend two months as a volunteer with SEED Madagascar’s Conservation and Research Program (SCRP) team. As my plane descended...
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Welcome to Madagascar: How I Found Myself on the Eighth Continent
I never thought that I would go to Madagascar. It seems strange now after spending two of the most extraordinary months of my life there, but it really just was never a place that was on my radar. Part of it was that I didn’t know much about it. Having...