I’m Kash (rhymes with Posh), a Chicago gal that’s been trekking the globe in stilettos for over 25 years. Instead of taking pictures with Mickey Mouse, I was swinging on vines with baboons in Costa Rica in grammar school. Shipped off to Poland every summer, I excelled at picking eggs under hens’ rears. I’ve studied abroad in Tokyo…3 times. After the last one, I traded in the Jetsons’ lifestyle for something more Flintstones; completing two years in a mud hut in Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2005. My Peace Corps friends took one look at me the first day we met and later confessed, We thought you’d be the first to go. I guess my pressed jeans, killer heels, carefully manicured toes, and monstrous bug-eyed shades didn’t exude hardcore. They were wrong.
I then picked up and moved to Manhattan for graduate school to make up for all the days of living in the bush, as well as to get a degree that would take me back to work in Africa. Now that I’ve graduated, I’m taking my ridiculous NYC shoe collection back with me to West Africa, to get back the piece of my heart I left there the first time, this time as a paid employee. Here are my stories.
Current destination: Mali, West Africa
Loves: Black and white, sun and snow, New York City and Timbuktu, penthouses and huts, The Economist and In Touch, Great Danes and Chihuahuas, Freedom of Speech and Silence
Please note: Most of my stories will remain personal or will be told only to friends and family. This blog is meant only to document my life in Mali on the surface. It is not a venue to philosphize or critically analyze. I hope you can enjoy it and understand. Please use excretion when posting comments.
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Kash- You are so hardcore. In PC, I never thought you would leave, but more “how did she find such a great tailor so f’in quickly?”
Definitely keep up the blogs- I’ll won’t have my sister keeping tabs on you in Mali.
Good luck with this upcoming adventure.
Keep it classy…
jamm rekk,
El
Great blog! And lucky you, in Africa. I’m looking forward to reading more about your adventures!
Just stumbled across your blog and I already love it. You remind me a lot of myself ha ha. Were were you stationed when you were in the Peace Corps? I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit my good friend in Cameroon this past Christmas/New Years. Hooray for African French! lol
Thanks for the credit, but it truly is you who makes the blog great! Best of luck in Africa and all your travels. Can’t wait to read all about it!
Wow!! Sounds like a seriously interesting life!!
Fun little read your blog… from someone stuck at the bottom of africa 
~C
I, too, feel as if you remind me of myself – and that’s a rare find
. I look forward to reading about your adventures.
good luck….
Woww, you definitely seem to have been a global trend trotter at a very young age. Bet the experiencies that you have garnered is something to watch out in your blogs. Great blog
You sound like a living version of Green Acres! Although you may be too young to remember it… Aww hell…Google it!
Good for you…
Kash!
Your blog is great! Katherine passed it along to me today and I really love it. I added you to my blog links and def look forward to reading more. Hope all is well… thinking about you here in NYC!
Katie
Enjoy Africa!!!
Arjen