<![CDATA[Adam Willard - Yahoo! Voices]]> en-us Copyright 2012 voices.yahoo.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:23:33 EDT http://l.yimg.com/ck/siteimg/PP-voices.jpg http://voices.yahoo.com/ Voices <![CDATA[The Cross-Cultural Adjustment Process - Repeated Again and Again]]> We returned to our village in South Africa where we were Peace Corps Volunteers for over two years. We saw the success of our previous cross-cultural adjustment. Now we're beginning the cross-cultural adjustment again in Madagascar.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Nov 20, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-crosscultural-adjustment-process-10483647.html <![CDATA[The Body of Christ]]> People often speak of "every tribe, tongue, and nation" as a goal to be achieved to bring about the end of times. But the international reality of the church, as described in Revelation, is far more meaningful than that.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Sep 27, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-body-christ-9522551.html <![CDATA[Ku Tsundzuka - to Remember & to Miss]]> After spending more than two years in a rural South African village, living, working, and integrating into the community, it can be very hard to leave. This is a heart-felt expression of what riches we're leaving behind as we return home.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Dec 20, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/ku-tsundzuka-remember-miss-7443468.html <![CDATA[Our Work in the Peace Corps in South Africa]]> Peace Corps service is both a challenging and rewarding occupation. My wife and I spent over two years in South Africa, working in a rural village with two primary schools, doing the best we could. This is an overview of our work and time spent there.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Dec 20, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/our-work-peace-corps-south-7443430.html <![CDATA[On the Other Side of the World]]> Moving away from home to the far side of the world is a difficult and often confusing task. It requires a delicate balance to understand and maintain personal identity. The following is an account of just that, finished by a vivid and heartfelt poem.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Dec 20, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/on-other-side-world-7443370.html <![CDATA[Cultural Value Transformation and Literacy in South Africa]]> Development work always seeks to change a culture and its values, to direct it towards a positive end. But not every change we make is a positive one. Even developing literacy in a non-literate society can cause the loss of positive cultural values.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Nov 03, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/cultural-value-transformation-literacy-7020824.html <![CDATA[A Culture of Asking in South Africa]]> In Africa, aid workers and visiting tourists often hear people constantly and shamelessly asking for money or gifts or favors. It's something engrained into their history and culture, but even something as distasteful as this has something to teach us.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Oct 24, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/a-culture-asking-south-africa-6986508.html <![CDATA[Understanding and Confronting Corruption in Africa]]> Corruption and dirty dealing is often encountered throughout work in Africa and many would-be do-gooders give up in the face of it. But a better understanding of corruption in Africa can both improve morale and provide a workable solution.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Oct 22, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/understanding-confronting-corruption-6980922.html <![CDATA[Culturally Appropriate Church in Madagascar]]> In most parts of the world, including Madagascar, Christian churches take the same form and are easily recognized. But is it right for a church to be so much the same when everything else in the culture is so different? There's another way.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Oct 21, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/culturally-appropriate-church-madagascar-6974458.html <![CDATA[Community-Focused Culture in South Africa]]> In most traditional South African communities, the welfare of the village is considered more highly than the desires of the individual. So everyone comes together to help when and where they can. America has a lot they can learn from that.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Oct 19, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/communityfocused-culture-south-africa-6954620.html <![CDATA[The Tension Between Wealth and Poverty in South Africa]]> South Africa, maybe more than any other country, has great wealth and great poverty side by side. This socio-economic divide creates a strong mental divide in South Africa's residents, making daily living a daily struggle. But there is a solution.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Oct 15, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-tension-between-wealth-poverty-6947640.html <![CDATA[2010 World Cup Reconciliation in South Africa]]> The 2010 World Cup has a lot to offer South Africa and the whole African continent: from a boost to the economy to a better global image. But the most important thing it has to offer South Africa is a renewed chance at reconciliation.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Jun 22, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/2010-world-cup-reconciliation-south-6242596.html <![CDATA[Changing Seasons in South Africa]]> After living in a rural village in South Africa for nearly two years now, we've learned a lot about all the changes that come with the changing seasons here. They have a lot to teach us about nature and about life.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: May 25, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/changing-seasons-south-africa-6046368.html <![CDATA[Kruger National Park, Safaris in South Africa: Tips for Travel]]> Africa is known for its amazing wildlife. Kruger National Park in South Africa gives has it all: self-guided safaris viewing all the most famous and exotic animal species in their natural habitats. Here's everything you need to know to enjoy Kruger.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Feb 02, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/kruger-national-park-safaris-south-5378063.html <![CDATA[Cultural Influence and Social Distance in South Africa and Mozambique]]> Cultural studies often assume that cultural traits are shared equally throughout an established people group. But, variations in history, nationality, and tourism can radically change cultural traits within the same people group, even nearby communities.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Feb 02, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/cultural-influence-social-distance-5377811.html <![CDATA[Action-packed Adventures in Rural South Africa]]> Living in rural South Africa is accompanied by lots of surprises. Here's a few exciting adventures from our lives in the last couple of months: a hippo killed at the river and a shoot-out at the village store.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Dec 05, 2009

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/actionpacked-adventures-rural-south-5017138.html <![CDATA[Perceptions of Time in Rural South Africa]]> Time is an integral part of our lives as Americans and we even have atomic clocks to measure its passing with incredible accuracy. But not everyone sees time the way we do. The vaTsonga of rural South Africa have a particularly different view of time.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Nov 10, 2009

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/perceptions-time-rural-south-4839754.html <![CDATA[Traditional Foods in Rural South Africa]]> Every part of the world has their own staple foods and particular specialties. The foods of choice in rural South Africa are no different, ranging from a daily portion of mushy white "mealie pap" to a caterpillar delicacy.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Oct 28, 2009

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/traditional-foods-rural-south-africa-4745624.html <![CDATA[Dealing with Death in Rural South Africa]]> Death in rural South Africa happens so much more frequently and surprisingly that it can easily frazzle the nerves of Western development workers. But for the people themselves, frequent death is a regular, and adaptable, fact of life.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Aug 05, 2009

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/dealing-death-rural-south-africa-3929876.html <![CDATA[Spiritual Life Lessons from Running a Marathon]]> In South Africa, we recently ran our first marathon in support of a scholarship fundraiser and we learned some important lessons along the way.

Contributor: Adam Willard
Published: Jul 31, 2009

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/spiritual-life-lessons-running-3910472.html