Pictures from last year's Goat Roast

Goat Roast 2006

If this whets your appetite, contact Howard at hkoons@infostations.net to sign up for this year's Goat Roast.

Music video from the bar television at Habibi

Adventures in Dining at Habibi 3-16-07

Adventures in Dining at Habibi 3/16/07

Current enews

Read the March enews here.

Next Adventures in Dining

March 16 7 pm Adventures in Dining: Habibi Cafe 7336 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael, (916) 979-9400 Email Audrey to tell her you are coming.

Volunteers Needed to Host International Visitors

The Northern California World Trade Center is applying to be the local host for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). The IVLP is a State Department-funded program that brings future foreign leaders to the United States. We are seeking to develop a list of volunteers in the Sacramento region who are interested in promoting citizen diplomacy - improving international relations "one handshake at a time." The international visitors spend two to three weeks in our country, visiting various cities in the U.S. They learn about a variety of topics, depending on their professional experience and interests. The goal of the program is to promote improved relations between the U.S. and our overseas partners. Volunteers are needed to provide "home hospitality" to international visitors. This means inviting visitors to your home for a meal, or inviting them out to dinner, or taking them to a concert, art gallery event, or a Kings or Rivercats game. You will be helping the visitors get to know Americans on an individual basis. For more information, please visit http://exchanges.state.gov/education/ivp/. For information on the Northern California World Trade Center, please visit http://www.norcalwtc.org. If you are interested, please call or e-mail Michele Gault and provide your name, e-mail address, and phone number. See contact info below.

Michele Gault

Executive Director

Northern California World Trade Center

One Capitol Mall, Suite 300

Sacramento, California 95814

Direct: +1 916 319-4276

Fax: +1 916 443-2672

mgault@norcalwtc.org

www.norcalwtc.org

Take Your Business Global! Learn about opportunities for selling your products or services internationally at the NCWTC's "Exporting Fundamentals" seminar, March 8, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. More info

Final Two Peace Corps General Information Meetings of Winter Quarter

Wednesday, March 7^th 5:20 pm

Soc Sci 1100 (Auditorium)

Wednesday, March 14^th 5:20 pm

Soc Sci 1100 (Auditorium)

RPCVs are always welcome to attend and discuss their experiences with the guests.

Jack Knettle

Peace Corps campus coordinator

Internship and Career Center, 230 South Hall

Telephone: 752-8234

jknettle@ucdavis.edu

Winter Quarter office hours:

Tuesdays 11-3 and Thursdays 1-3. 

Peace Corps is a 27-month commitment that gives the volunteers
international professional experience, a substantial benefits
package, and the adventure of a lifetime. Our volunteers provide
technical development advice and efforts to their communities;
create a good image of Americans in foreign lands; and return to
the United States as part of a body of citizens versed and skilled
in cross-cultural relations. 

The Goat Roast

That's G-O-A-T R-O-A-S-T, as in PIG.

It's hard to shed our earlier vision of the sub-terrain, roasting goat with a ring of salivating, hungry RPCVs and families awaiting excavation. So, we'll retain the "Goat Roast" vision but most likely substitute pig for goat. Perhaps we should more appropriately be calling it Luau. Pork may be the carnivore's choice of the two, but for those adverse to all meat there will be plenty of dishes from which to choose. Was there ever a RPCV potluck where this was not true? One thing for sure that RPCV-training, or in-country service accomplished is the production of great international cooks! I will also be repeating last year's smoked turkey. It had the strange phenomenon of completely disappearing by the time I had finished carving.

This email is your second reminder. Set Sunday, April 29, aside, two months from today. It's Goat Roast, Pig Roast, Luau Day at my house. You may invite friendly friends and family. It starts at 5:00AM when the pyre is lit and progresses throughout the day until bodies full bellies barely navigate back home.

Those not wanting to miss the initial phase are invited to spend the night Saturday. To help in preparations, please RSVP with the number in your party as soon as you know who's coming.

Hope to see you. (And, don't forget the 3-night, 4-day RPCV Campout at Stampede Reservoir starting 14 June! Again, open to all.)

Howard Koons

Malaysia in the 60's

530 888-7335

Faith shows how to wear a sari

For Peace Corps Day, Faith Boucher and Mark Stivers went to St. Francis Elementary. Here Faith shows how to put on a sari.