Author Archives for Anton Zuiker

Babies for group 11

Posted by Anton Zuiker on July 25th, 2007

Congrats to Tom Spangler and Karyn Fox on the birth of their first child, a son; Chad and Kristen Metzler on the birth of their daughter (they have a son, too); and Bridgit Green and Ibrahim Adamou on the birth of their first child, a daughter.

About those goals

Posted by Anton Zuiker on March 16th, 2007

From where did the three Peace Corps goals come? Read this.

Peace Corps Vanuatu website

Posted by Anton Zuiker on March 15th, 2007

Just stumbled upon this today, but Peace Corps Vanuatu has a website.

State of emergency in Port Vila

Posted by Anton Zuiker on March 5th, 2007

Sara Lightner forwarded a message from Ralph Regenvanu about violence flaring up in and around Vila. Looks as if man Tanna and man Ambrym are in a rao about sorcery. See Reuters coverage in this article.

North Carolina storian dinner

Posted by Anton Zuiker on February 11th, 2007

After more than two years, Erin and I finally found a time to gather with some of the North Carolina Vanuatu RPCVs. Evan and Maggie Baker (Evan was based in Vila, and Maggie was a VSO in Vila) and Bryan and Beth Roy (Bryan lived on Paama) joined me and Erin (we were on Paama) […]

Vanuatu video tourism

Posted by Anton Zuiker on January 31st, 2007

Doug Clegg (Ambrym 1997-2000) alerts us to Vanuatu.tv. He also writes that there’s not much snow but the ski resorts in Idaho are open, and “looks like if we don’t get some precip this month we could be looking at another year of drought.”

Listen to the Peace Corps podcast

Posted by Anton Zuiker on December 21st, 2006

The Peace Corps has a podcast published every Thursday. Subscribe and listen to voices of our fellow volunteers. We can do a Vanuatu RPCV podcast — who wants to be first?

The moon and mango seas

Posted by Anton Zuiker on December 4th, 2006

On my way home from work tonight, I watched as a gigantic full moon gradually got brighter and brighter. I thought back to those nights on Paama when the full moon lit up the island and I could walk around without a torch (as compared to those no-moon nights where I could barely see where […]

Feed the pig

Posted by Anton Zuiker on November 29th, 2006

I find my Vanuatu pictures in all kinds of odd places around the house.
Here’s an image I came across tonight, showing me sitting on a pile of navara beside the house Erin and I occupied. The coconuts were for my pig — I traded the kids of Liro Village a mini flashlight for every five […]

Missed in North Carolina

Posted by Anton Zuiker on November 5th, 2006

I traveled to Boston yesterday to attend the American Public Health Association conference, and so I missed two opportunities to see Vanuatu RPCVs. Ginger Newcomb was in Greensboro for a Kindermusik convention; Erin talked with Ginger by phone, and I hope she’ll fill us in on their conversation.
And, Evan Baker organized a party for RPCVs. […]

Anton Zuiker

Anton Zuiker (aka mistersugar) was a Peace Corps Volunteer, along with his wife, Erin Shaughnessy Zuiker, on the island of Paama from 1997 through 1999.