My Years in the Early Peace Corps: Ethiopia, 1965-1966

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.

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My Years in the Early Peace Corps: Ethiopia, 1965-1966

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.

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My Years in the Early Peace Corps: Ethiopia, 1965-1966

My Years in the Early Peace Corps: Ethiopia, 1965-1966

by Sonja Krause Goodwin
My Years in the Early Peace Corps: Ethiopia, 1965-1966

My Years in the Early Peace Corps: Ethiopia, 1965-1966

by Sonja Krause Goodwin

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761873037
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Publication date: 09/17/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 270
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Sonja Krause Goodwin is professor emeritus of chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Table of Contents

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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