Earlier this week cyclone Nargis tore through the southwest of the country killing up to an estimated 60-100,000 people so far and affecting 1.5 million people by the disaster. Hundreds of thousands of people have no food, water, or shelter. One of the poorest countries in the world, the...

With the snow in the mountains receding and the rain clouds clearing, my wonder lust for a new adventure returns with the assurance of summer.  Final exams have now wound down and I have replaced the usual grind of a summer job and yard work, with school work and the promise of an adventure....

Beautiful Burundi is a very small country bordered by the giants of Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda to the north.
Like Rwanda, Burundi was colonized by the Germans and later the Belgians and as in Rwanda the Europeans played on ethnic differences to divide and conquer the...