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Part 2 is an account of the author's two-year tenure as a US Peace Corps Volunteer and subsequent visits to Ethiopia as a US election observer, Fulbright lecturer/researcher, and conferee. The content focuses on circumstances in which the author found herself and how she dealt with them as an outsider and as an American of Chinese descent living and working in Africa. She also alludes to aspects of her Peace Corps experience in Part 1 as they pertain to issues not clarified in Part 2. And occasionally she makes references about events occurring on dates not indicated within the specified timeframe for they were relevant to the discussion at hand. Topics include: Foreigner in America, why the author joined the US Peace Corps, Walkout in Virginia, Peace Corps Service, Pebbles and Stones, Almost Meeting Premier Chou En-lai, Separate but not equal. Brown like us. Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee in Ethiopia, and general observations of her Peace Corps years.
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