PCV Heather Scott

Normally when a person leaves the group we don't follow their lives on the lab web site. But Heather is gone and not gone. We wanted to chronicle her travels here.

Here's a map of where she is currently posted - Kiffa, Mauritania

You can also get some information about Mauritania by going to the following links:: Local time (8 hours later than Davis); Local weather (click on Tidjikja region); Encyclopedia-type information about Mauritania and its people

The following are some pictures she took during her training. We received them just after Christmas, 2000. She titled them "Pictures - A day in the life of a Peace Corps trainee"

Heather with Jo and Abdulih

Donkey charette

Buna, Ami and Mariam

Goat (Duh!)

Family market booth

Heather and Liz

Scenery

Heather and her host sister, Halimata N'Diayeoman

Here are more pictures from a second set that she sent us in March, 2001. The labels are from the back of the pictures.

Kankossa butcher. Feb. 14, 2001

Naruth's dog, Jedida. Dec, 15, 2000

Camel. Feb 2001. (Like the goat, duh.)

Kiffa sunset. Jan. 2001

Street gang, Kiffa. Feb. 2001

Heather and millet fields, Guevava (village near Kiffa)

: 1) watched the president's entourage come into town followed by 600 horses and 400 camels and riders, and; 2) tried to get on TV by climbing up high and waving a Mauritanian flag and a handmade American flag.

"The Cello dress resurrected as a millet pounding dress"

This picture arrived on June 8

"Enclosed is a picture of me in the Kankossa market - don't I fit right in? That's a clay water jug on my head, but it's not usually used for transporting water because it weighs a ton! … I love this picture because it shows what a main drag in a town looks like."