Bush League at Third Goal IFF

Just back from Columbia, Missouri where Bush League headlined the Third Goal Int Film Fest at the University of Missouri. What a community of the people we met there - no joke, Columbia has got something really special going on. Let me say thanks one more time to the Third Goal Int Film Fest, The Central Missouri RPCV group and Columbia Access Television for bringing Jake, the film and myself out to be part of it.Here's Jake and I with a few of the RPCVs who organized the festival:

And the audience greeting the people back in Malawi in Chitumbuka:

http://vimeo.com/36262443

New Peace Corps Poster

The Peace Corps just turned fifty years old this month and they (we) got a new poster designed by Shepard Fairey. Love it.

The Peace Corps to Congress, "Make it Rain"

A little audio piece in the New Yorker about the Peace Corps.

Peace Corps Apartment

Watching this made me nostalgic. I had no idea Peace Corps was in China?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMie7fugY9U&feature=related

Niger '66

Here's a trailer for a new doc film about a group of early Peace Corps volunteers who went to Niger in 1966. It's amazing to me how different the institution seems. My Peace Corps (2000-02) wasn't exactly a well oiled machine but they were really good at training. It looks like it was kinda messy back then. I do envy the early volunteers though, they got to blaze the trail for the rest of us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGrB06WagE&feature=player_embedded