First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria

Posted on 24 June 2018 by Eve Brown-Waite

In this laugh out loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him literally to the ends of the earth Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without sushi, frothy coffee drinks and air conditioning But with college diploma in hand, it was time to put up or shut up So with some ambivalence she arrives at the Peace Corps office sporting her best safari chic attire to casually look into the steps one might take if one were to become a global humanitarian, a la Angelina Jolie But when Eve meets John, her dashing young Peace Corps recruiter, all her ambivalence flies out the window She absolutely must join the Peace Corps and win John s heart in the process Off to Ecuador she goes and after a year in the jungle back to the States she runs, vowing to stay within easy reach of a decaf cappuccino for the rest of her days But life had other plans Just as she s getting reacquainted with the joys of toilet paper, John gets a job with CARE and Eve must decide if she s up for life in another third world outpost Before you can say, pass the malaria prophylaxis, the couple heads off to Uganda, and the fun really begins if one can call having rats in your toilet fun Fortunately, in Eve s case one certainly can, because to her, every experience is an adventure to be embraced and these pages come alive with all of the alternatively poignant and uproarious details With wit and candor,First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria chronicles Eve s misadventures as an aspiring do gooder From intestinal parasites to getting caught in a civil war, culture clashes to unexpected friendships, here is an honest and laugh out loud funny look at the search for love and purpose from a woman who finds both in the last place she expected.AUTHOR BIO EVE BROWN WAITE was a finalist for Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, and New Millennium Writings Awards for stories she wrote about her time abroad She lives with her husband and two children in Massachusetts. Read First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria author Eve Brown-Waite – kino-fada.fr Can I rate the first section five stars and the second section three Being a RPCV returned Peace Corps volunteer and ex expat myself, the book rang true I laughed out loud about gamma globulin shots, weekly Newsweek magazines, host families that, with the best of intentions, will never leave you alone, scary staging in Miami, crazy water heaters, people going through your personal hygiene products trying to figure them out, etc It was a fun, realistic look at the well meaning, and often m Can I rate the first section five stars and the second section three Being a RPCV returned Peace Corps volunteer and ex expat myself, the book ran...I wanted to like this I really did But I think the reason it took so long for me to finish reading this book was because Eve Brown Waite seemed to be trying too hard to be charming and quirky like Carrie Bradshaw if she had followed some handsome do gooder out to Uganda and married him But the thing is, Eve Brown Waite is no Carrie Bradshaw though, some of the flightly, materialistic, whiney aspects of Carrie s character is on full display in this book...Usually I am muchtolerant, but I guess I make an exception for whiny princess drama queens who write books whose ultimate message is, Look at me doing this Look at me doing that Such was First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life by Eve Brown Waite.I undertook to read this book because of the chapters on Ecuador The problem was that the author was in too much of a funk to try to understand the people and Usually I am muchtolerant, but I guess I make an exception for whiny princess drama queens who write books whose ultimate message is, Look at me doing this Look at me doing that Such was First Comes Love, then Come...CARE and the Peace Corps do not have the same lifestyle as missionaries, but the confusion and frustrations of being plunged into a small town in a developing country are very similar The fact is that negative events are much funnier to read about than pleasant ones, and Eve Brown Waite s misadventures in Ecuador and Uganda will have you laughing out loud whether you have ever been in a developing country or not Those of us who have, will see ourselves and our friends in everything from making CARE and the Peace Corps do not have the same lifestyle as missionaries, but the confusion and frustrations of being plunged into a small town in a developing country are very similar The fact is that negative events are much funnier to read about than pleasant ones, and Eve Brown Waite s misadventures in Ecuador and Uganda will have you laughing out loud whether you have ever been in a developing country or not Those of us who have, will see ourselves and our friends in everything from making yogurt in a sleeping bag and coping with body odor to dreading good byes and totally losing it in an American superma...This memoir was really event based and not as thoughtful as I wanted it to be The author describes major events in this sort of matter of fact way, but never provided the reflective commentary I wanted to get what the heck was going on I thought that Eve was just a bundle of contradictions which admittedly, everyone is but she never took the time to really ex...If you can get past the first 30 pages of obnoxious whining, you ll find that the rest of the book is comprised of muchentertaining whining Definitely a different book than I expected mostly about the author s struggles with being an ex pat in Uganda, trying to adjust to the environment, figure out the people, and maybe find meaningful work to do while she s there Basically, the things I learned from this book 1 Uganda is pretty, but I don t want to live there2 Do gooder, save the wo If you can get past the first 30 pages of obnoxious whining, you ll find that th...The cover and title are misleading This book isculturally sensitive and aware than I expected Detailed description of culture shock and adaptation make the book worth reading The author does not spend much time describing the places o...As someone who s about to become a Peace Corps volunteer I read this book in order to get another perspective on what it is like to serve The book is split into two parts when she s a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, and then when she is in Uganda with her husband when he is working for CARE It s almost like 2 different books, and one gets the sense that she is rushing through the first part of the story just to get to the second The whole premise of her falling in love with her Peace Corp As someone who s about to become a Peace Corps volunteer I read this book in order to get another perspective on what it is like to serve The book is split into two parts when she s a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, and then when she is in Uganda with her husband when he is working for CARE It s almost like 2 different books, and one gets the sense that she is rushing thr...This book is in the same vein as Maartin Troost s Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with Savages The book follows Eve from her post college Peace Corp experience in South America, to Uganda with her husband and eventually baby via CARE To me, it just didn t live up the standards of Troost s books I never really felt like I understood what day to day living was like there People and situations seem to pop in and out throughout the book with the sense that they ve been there all al This book is in the same vein as Maartin Troost s Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stoned with Savages The book follows Eve from her post college Peace Corp experience in South America, to Uganda with her husband and eventually baby via CARE To me, it just didn t live up the standards of Troost s books I never really felt like I understood what day to day living was like there People and situations seem to pop in and out throughout the book with the sense that they ve been there...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here This book was worth the what This book was worth the wait I m pretending that I ve known for twenty years that this book was going to be writtenwhich I did not know, and also, when I did become aware of it s existence I think maybe a week passed before I had it in hand and then I couldn t put it down I think eve brown waite waited the exact right amount of time to get her experiences in Ecuador and Uganda down on paper for the public The story developed beautifully as she effortlessly to This book was worth the what This book was worth the wait I m pretending that I ve known for twenty years that this book was going to be writtenwhich I did not know, and also, when I did become aware of it s existence I think maybe a week passed before I had it in hand and then I couldn t put it down I think eve brown waite waited the exact right amount of time to get her experiences in Ecuador and Uganda down on paper for the public The story developed beautifully as she effortlessly told her story of being uncomfortably...

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24 June 2018

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