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Your top ten; let's see some lists. . .
Topic Started: Feb 2 2010, 06:04 PM (726 Views)
Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
Packing clothes and shoes and toiletries for the next 2.25 years. . . not so hard acksually.

Packing my books and music. . . how the hell do you choose??

Imagine you're leaving the country for a couple years, off to some extremely rural Third World village. No access to libraries. Booksellers will be few and far between, and merchandise will be in the local language, which you may only have a basic working understanding of. No downloading music. No iPod. All you've got is a discman, baby!

Obviously you have very limited packing space, so let's keep this to 10 or less each.

What albums do you bring?

What books?
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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LWpianistin
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HOLY CARP!!!
I'll have to think about it more...so many to choose from!
And how are you today?
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Copper
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Shortstop

The World Almanac and Book of Facts

Get some USB flash drives and fill them up here http://books.google.com
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Optimistic
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I'll have to think about it more...so many to choose from!

Tell me about it!!
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
Copper
Feb 2 2010, 06:16 PM
Get some USB flash drives
THIS.

Then I'd take everything.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
You people are no fun. :P
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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Frank_W
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I'd take my old SF medical handbook, and a couple of other reference books. I'd be in a totally different mindset...
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Gotta mix the old standby with the classic that you've been meaning to read forever and a day.

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Brothers K
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. War and Peace
5. Ovid's Metamorphoses
6. The Bible
7. The Odyssey (Or maybe Heaney's Beowulf - tough call)
8. The Atlantic Book of Verse (massive collection of poetry)
9. T.S. Eliot's collected works
10. Till We Have Faces (C.S. Lewis)

Music - for this, I'd think about the music I turn to during times of stress, happiness, etc.

1. All That You Can't Leave Behind (U2)
2. Carbon Glacier (Laura Veirs)
3. Parachutes (Coldplay)
4. Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd)
5. It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all a dream! It's all right. . . (mewithoutYou)
6. Something by Beethoven - it'd be hard to decide
7. Boxer (The National)
8. Chutes Too Narrow (The Shins)
9. The Once Soundtrack
10. Either my Optimistic mix (remember, Opti?) or Ok, Computer (Radiohead)
We're all mad here!
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Optimistic
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:yesgrin: #10 :yesgrin:

Frank, I am bringing some development resource books, though PC advises us not to worry about bringing books b/c they have a resource library. The books I'm considering are ones like "Why Development Assistance Has Failed," and I'm not so sure PC would stock such material in their library (though they should!).

I'm trying to have at least 2 tried and true classics from my personal library, when I need to relax with something comfortable.

PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
1. Hughesnet internet satellite.
2. Portable generator.
2. 10,000 gallons of diesel..

Of the Pokatwat Tribe

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Frank_W
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Books... "The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein," and just about anything by Charles De Lint.

Music: Patrick Wolf - "The Magic Position."
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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apple
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i took way too much stuff overseas. i enjoyed memorizing poetry. I'd prepare for culture shock by having some tools to 'escape'.. writing implements, things to study.

it behooves me to behold
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Optimistic
Feb 2 2010, 06:36 PM
You people are no fun. :P
They're just familiar with Kirk's solution to the Kobayashi Mari problem.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Watch out for cannibals.

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See this documentary: “Keep The River On Your Right”. There's also a book by the same name. It’s about an anthropologist who in the 1950s went to the Amazon region to study the cannibalistic tribes. You’ve heard the saying “It takes one to know one”? Don’t worry though. Cannibalism in the Amazon region is long gone.
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Phlebas
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You're going where it's hot and humid? I would bring a couple Jack London books.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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I think I'd pack some short stories, because I may only have short snippets of time for escapism reading. I'd want a volume of short stories by

Guy de Maupassant

Somerset Maugham

Lynn Coady

then I think I'd like to have Forster's 'A Passage to India'

and I'd take a couple of books I've always wanted to read, but never got around to. Russian works, I think. There's many I could pick from.

Oh, and I absolutely would have to take a copy of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde. I've read the play so many times, it's like an old comfortable friend.

I'll think about the music.
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PattyP
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I'll play, Opti.

I'm not much of a reader so that's not a problem. I don't listen to music unless I'm trying to learn a particular song so no issue there.

1. Breathe-Rite strips; actually, the Walgreen's brand works better for me. I have a very deviated septum and sleep with my mouth open without them.
2. Coffee - my drug of choice is caffeine.
3. Toothbrush – gotta have it.
4. My methimazole drug. I've just been diagnosed with Graves' disease and without it my thryoid is hyperactive and everything in my body goes out of whack.

That's all I've got so far.

A tired dog is a good dog.

"Dogs' lives are too short...their only fault, really."
A.S. Turnbull
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Patty: Not even a subscription to American Bitch? :lol2:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Phlebas
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Make sure you have a copy of "The Complete Guide to Treating Tarantula Bites."
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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Phlebas
Feb 3 2010, 10:06 AM
Make sure you have a copy of "The Complete Guide to Treating Tarantula Bites."
I've been reading about volunteers getting bitten by spiders all night long. They use mosquito netting, but that doesn't stop the spiders. Small, and big ones. :hair:
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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Frank_W
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It's awful when they crawl into your mouth while you're asleep, thread their way up through your sinus cavities, and lay their eggs in there. When you sneeze, little baby spiders go shooting all over the place. It's horrible.

:devilgrin:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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QuirtEvans
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Cruel, Frank. Very cruel.

Save that kind of stuff for IT me.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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apple
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you guys are so mean..

are you really not coming back for 2.25 years?

wow

Edited by apple, Feb 3 2010, 10:39 AM.
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Ok, this is the pile of books so far (I will need to narrow it down at least slightly):

--Evaluating Nonformal Education Programs and Settings
--At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay (I wanted to read this before going, but after reading a few chapters realized I'd appreciate it more if I read it after being in the country a bit
--The Farm on the River Esmeraldas, by Moritz Thomsen. A GREAT book that I actually only just read a month ago. He wrote another great book about his time in Peace Corps (he was in his late 40s when he went, back in the '60s), but this book is a few years after that, when he went back to his area in Ecuador and bought a farm with an Ecuadorian friend. This guy is VERY realistic about the goals PCVolunteers should expect. I don't think everybody would enjoy his perspective on it, but I definitely appreciate the realistic perspectives like his. It comes off as pessimistic, but I really do think it's more realism than pessimism.
--Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, by Muhammad Yunnus. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Grameen Bank, which has been really successful in encouraging and supporting women's small business ventures in the Third World.
--Alta Fidelidad, by Nick Hornby. High Fidelity in Spanish.
--Cien Años de Soledad, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, a GREAT book.
--Catch-22, by Joseph Heller. Always a fun one to come back to.
--Spanish dictionary
--Guarani dictionary
AND (and these will not be narrowed down, these are all going)
--a small collection of children's books in Spanish: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Are You My Mother?
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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Optimistic
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Frank, that's just evil. Evil!!
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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