Paul made up a Pulaar joke last night:
What do you say after you’ve finished eating a bowl of beans?
GASII!! (It means “it is finished” in Pulaar!).
2 April 2011
Bean joke
By Maddy
This entry was posted on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at 19:52 and posted in Life, Pulaar and tongues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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The contents of this blog are ours personally and do not reflect any position of the US government or the Peace Corps. The purpose of this blog is to keep in touch with our loved ones back home.
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PCV Madeline Tiee or Paul Levy
Corps de la Paix
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Senegal, WEST AFRICAPaul's e-mail: lhabitude@gmail.com
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More Photos Books read as of now in Senegal
Paul:
Green Hills of Africa--Ernest Hemmingway
Exile and the Kingdom--Camus
Ishmael--Daniel Quinn
Hot, Flat, and Crowded--Thomas Friedman
The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup--ed. Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (pretentious title but good essays--Dave Eggers nails the US on soccer)
On Writing--Stephen King
The Stranger--Camus, again
When you are Engulfed in Flames--David Sedaris (is it weird that he makes me miss the US, characters and all?).
The Waste Land and Other Writings--T.S. EliotMaddy:
Bean Trees--Barbara Kingsolver
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter--Sue Monk Kidd
Mountains Beyond Mountains--Tracy Kidder
Ishmael--Daniel Quinn
The End of Poverty--Jeffrey Sachs
Secret Life of Bees--Sue Monk Kidd
Love in the Time of Cholera--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Unaccustomed Earth--Jhumpa Lahiri
When you are Engulfed in Flames--David Sedaris
The Good Earth--Pearl S. Buck
In Defense of Food--Michael Pollan
The Memory Keeper's Daughter--Kim Edwards
Infidel--Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Half the Sky--Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Pigs in Heaven--Barbara Kingsolver
Botany of Desire--Michael Pollan
Caged Virgin--Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reading Lolita in Tehran--Azar Nafisi
Siddhartha--Hermann Hesse
Daisy Miller--Henry James
Vagina Monologues--Eve Ensler
And Then There were None--Agatha Christie
The Fountainhead--Ayn Rand
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer
Exile and the Kingdom--Camus
Naked--David Sedaris
Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe--Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio
Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa--Katherine A DettwylerCategory Cloud
Maddy
Paul
April 3rd, 2011 at 13:38
I liked that!
XOXO, Grandma
April 22nd, 2012 at 19:41
Hilarious!