This is a continuation of the previous entry. Im trying to do multiple posts because of length ( Read more... )

Maybe the only redeeming thing about Burkina in the hot season are the mangos ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I am really leaving ouaga for real ( Read more... )

I dont want to lie, the last couple weeks have been rough. The good news is that the study from hell is done. The perfectionist in me says I still need to tweak it to make sure its stylistically uniform, and go through it for grammar. And I still need to translate a chunk of it anyway so the community will be able to read it ( Read more... )

Today was a lot of unwinding intermixed with some buying for my house ( Read more... )

I dropped my cell phone in the latrine on the night of Tabaski (a Muslim holiday I dont know how to spell ( Read more... )

I finally got around to updating my profile. Now the basics are up ( Read more... )

Burkina is a small country, only about the size of Colorado, and when you are here, you feel it, the whole world and all its opportunities confined to the size of Colorado. There is a small window of opportunity to both get educated and then seek out one of the few salaried jobs in the country. Private industry largely doesnt exist here, there is ( Read more... )

Before I begin this entry I have two disclaimers from previous entries ( Read more... )

Just a bit ago I was buying odds and ends for my house, an eternal never-ending quest so it seems because I can get almost nothing of that sort in village. Villageois houses are extremely bare, with maybe only a couple little stools as furniture, and thats pretty much it ( Read more... )