
- 134 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
From 1968 until 1970, William Hershey served as the only Peace Corps volunteer in a small Ethiopian town. Hershey taught seventh and eighth grade students the English that they would need to continue their educations and brighten their futures. He became part of the community, eating the local food and doing his best to communicate in Amharic. He also navigated cultural gaffes-having his house stoned by disgruntled students, angered at being assigned to cleaning the outhouses, and nearly sparking international trouble by clashing with a player from a rival school during a heated basketball game. Decades later as a journalist, he used his once-in-a-lifetime Peace Corps experience to reflect on immigration, global goodwill and the hope the United States should share with the rest of the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: John C. Green
- Foreword: Richard F. Celeste
- Foreword: Bob Taft
- Introduction: William Hershey
- The Outhouse Rebellion
- My Brief But Dismal Career on the Ethiopian Basketball Circuit
- My Plunge into Ethiopia
- My 1968 in Ethiopia
- Finally, the Doctors Arrivedat Malaria
- Where Christians and Muslims Coexist
- How We Sided with Change in Ethiopia
- An Emperor, a Governor, and a President
- Where Are the Welcome and the Hope?
- Plumber, Taxi Driver Tell America’s Story
- The Letter of Hope
- A Refugee Story about America
- Ethiopia: Profile of a Nation
- Afterword: Kathleen Coskran
- Afterwords: Abebe Kirkos
- Acknowledgments