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2 Andrew_MacGregor
Andrew_MacGr... Offline Send Email
Aug 4, 2001
7:53 pm
"Bob" - What's your association with the Peace Corps in Gabon? Were you there? Please tell me what Gabon is like?<br> - Andrew....
3 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 7, 2001
2:45 pm
Andrew, I was one of 38 PCVs who first arrived in Gabon in March 1963 to begin the school classroom construction projects. Since then, over 600 classrooms and ...
4 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 8, 2001
4:55 am
I copped out on the question "What is Gabon like?". <br><br>From my earlier perspective/experience level (20 year-old kid from Minnesota but somewhat ...
5 Andrew_MacGregor
Andrew_MacGr... Offline Send Email
Aug 9, 2001
1:22 am
Already you have given me a greater appreciation than the maps / guides, and internet have provided before. I knew absolutely zero before I found that Gabon ...
6 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
2:34 am
Nice photo. Love the composition with a swimming pool in the the background and a traditional dancer in the foreground....
7 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
2:38 am
Yeah...It was my most recent...taken in August, 2000. I have yet to wade through the older pictures that I have so that I can scan a few in for you. I promise...
8 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
2:38 am
Yeah...It was my most recent...taken in August, 2000. I have yet to wade through the older pictures that I have so that I can scan a few in for you. I promise...
9 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
2:38 am
Yeah...It was my most recent...taken in August, 2000. I have yet to wade through the older pictures that I have so that I can scan a few in for you. I promise...
10 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
2:38 am
Yeah...It was my most recent...taken in August, 2000. I have yet to wade through the older pictures that I have so that I can scan a few in for you. I promise...
11 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
1:29 pm
I received a letter a few years ago from a PCV stationed in Fougamou who said that the students had no books. Has the situation improved?...
12 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
1:38 pm
Whose addresses are you looking for? I don't understand Gabon 1....
13 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
1:42 pm
NO...only worsened. Books are scarce, and obviouslynot taken care of by the students. It makes it difficult for the principals to loan them out. Some of the ...
14 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
2:38 pm
I think he was referring to the first PC project in Gabon, 1963-64. We referred to ourselves as Gabon I....
15 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 9, 2001
2:41 pm
As I recall, when visiting several primary classrooms in 1963 and 1964, rote learning was the technique and corporal punishment dished out regularly. Has it...
16 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
12:31 am
In the primary schools, it was not uncommon for my child to come home with welts on his butt or is arms. That was the norm. Where I worked, middle school and...
17 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
2:38 am
Interesting that you had a son attending primary school in Gabon. The Peace Corps was not so liberated in the early era. Gays were often expelled, spouses not ...
18 goingenboite Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
1:32 pm
I was in the Peace Corps for 2 years (1994-96), but stuck around and worked privately until 2000. I am now married to a Gabonese woman who already had 3 ...
19 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
2:18 pm
You have quite a nice, large family there in Oregon. At your age, I just got married. <br><br>In response to your question, I received a few letters from the...
20 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
2:18 pm
You have quite a nice, large family there in Oregon. At your age, I just got married. <br><br>In response to your question, I received a few letters from the...
21 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
7:10 pm
New links added today. First link includes all the names and available addresses of the first three groups of PCVs to Gabon. We would like to include a listing...
22 elpivo Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
8:21 pm
Hello to all of you Gabonese friends. My name is Jules and i am very please to have found the place to communicate so much with other poeple who have as well a...
23 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
10:16 pm
Mbolo "Man of the Forest". Thanks for your participation. Please let us know a little about yourself. You write excellent English. Are you at an American...
24 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
11:04 pm
Interesting post on another Gabon forum. Comments?<br><br><a href=http://www.woyaa.com/forum/read.php3?f=204&i=4&t=2...
25 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 10, 2001
11:04 pm
Interesting post on another Gabon forum. Comments?<br><br><a href=http://www.woyaa.com/forum/read.php3?f=204&i=4&t=2...
26 Andrew_MacGregor
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Aug 11, 2001
5:12 pm
Seems to me that there is quite a difference between the two worlds of Gabon, if one were to rely only on the pictures posted so far.<br><br>It would be ...
27 Andrew_MacGregor
Andrew_MacGr... Offline Send Email
Aug 11, 2001
5:21 pm
Pardon the wandering mind of a neophyte, but could we share news about the current business and economic factors in Gabon?<br><br>What corporations are active...
28 bobutne Offline Send Email Aug 11, 2001
8:51 pm
Andrew, Please contact me via email: bobutne@...<br><br>I want to discuss some business prospects in Gabon....
29 jack_atkinson2000
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Aug 11, 2001
10:59 pm
I haven't looked into it but would very much like to know what American owned and/or controlled companies are present. I think when I was there in 63-64 there...
30 Andrew_MacGregor
Andrew_MacGr... Offline Send Email
Aug 11, 2001
11:53 pm
'Bob' - I sent you an e-mail, but I have had a lot of trouble with sending/receiving e-mail lately. You can also try contacting me by Contacting me as a ...
31 Andrew_MacGregor
Andrew_MacGr... Offline Send Email
Aug 11, 2001
11:53 pm
'Bob' - I sent you an e-mail, but I have had a lot of trouble with sending/receiving e-mail lately. You can also try contacting me by Contacting me as a ...
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