The Global Bulldog
Volume 1, Issue 2
Summer/Fall 2013
Library in Mozambique
Words from Togo
Learn about Cheyanne Greer’s experience opening a library in her community.
PCMI student Amanda Walsh gives first impressions of her new host country.
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Food Talk
Frances Peterson offers insight on a traditional Paraguayan dish, sopa paraguaya.
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Coordinator Corner Hello everyone! My name is Tyler Wasson. In March I began working for Gonzaga University as a Program Assistant II for the English Language Center. I am also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. I served as a Community and Organizational Development Volunteer from August 2007 until October of 2009 in the southeastern European country of Bulgaria. During my service I lived in the town of Isperih (population ~6,000), and I then
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Publication of Gonzaga University’s Peace Corps Master’s International Program
Learn about Cheyanne Tyler Wasson, PCMI Coordinator Greer’s experience opening a library in her community.
Updates from Campus Megan McCann was the first PCMI student to graduate from Gonzaga last May.
spent another year living and working in the Black Sea town of Burgas.
While in the Peace Corps my primary assignment was working at a small business center, but I found myself doing a lot more. I co‐taught business English, substitute taught English at a high school, volunteered at an orphanage, coached children’s
Britt Harmon is heading to Macedonia for Peace Corps training in early September Kate Barba is heading to Ecuador for Peace Corps training in January 2014
sports teams, coordinated World AIDS Day and World Water Day events, assisted with new volunteer trainings, and more. I returned to my hometown of Spokane and I completed my MBA here at Gonzaga this August. I’m very happy to be working with such a diverse and interesting group of people here in the Schoenberg Center. I count my years in the Peace Corps as some of the best years of my life and I am happy to be in a position to provide support for PCMI students having their own cross‐cultural and life‐changing experiences.
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