From dodging army ants and Tuareg warriors to searching for ÔFinnishÕ beer and National Geographic cover girls, this memoir taps a collection of letters and voice tapes to friends and family written nearly 40 years ago in Africa. The author, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa, relives the excitement and frustration of learning a new culture. Comical and melancholic at the same time, the story chronicles the maturation process that happens to all of us when we leave school for Ôthe real worldÕ.