 You used to say, if you're enjoying this, think how much a four-year-old kid is going to enjoy this, or a six-year-old kid. After the Peace Corps, Cochran taught for a year in Banjul, the capital of the Gambia. She returned to the United States less than two years ago. At first, her glib answer to, how was Africa, was, hot. But, she says, that fact contributed much to her experience.