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Quotes from the Trip: Benin
me: “Sarah Palin is an idiot.” him: “No, really?” me: “Do you have deers in Italy?” him: “Whats that?” me: “Bambi” him: “Oh. Yes.” “He’s so scary. He’s so tall and black.” “Don’t give her the camera, she doesn’t know…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Quotes From the Trip
February 11, 2011
If hell has a name…..
So yesterday the Italian and I headed to Cotonou because he needed to renew his visa and do some other things. The bus trip was probably the worst one that I will ever take in my life, if I can…
Since I’ve been in Benin…
I have mastered the art of broken French sprinkled with a few English words said with a crappy French accent. I have developed an insane fear of being crushed by a truck falling over on its side. I have somehow…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Expat Life, Musings
February 7, 2011
It’s the little things…
Standing outside in 90 degree weather bent over washing laundry is not my idea of a good time at the end of every week. So after a few months of hand washing all of our own laundry, we finally asked…
La santé publique au Bénin
As many of us learned in courses that focus on global public health or by reading the Africa section of the NY Times, public health in developing countries, Africa specifically is poor at best and for many, nonexistent. Being here…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Development, Global Public Health, Musings
January 29, 2011
This weather…
Ok, so I really try not to complain about the weather here, especially since my poor friends on the east coast and in the midwest have had a particularly harsh winter this year, which my mother reminds me of every…
January 26, 2011
Quick Math
Today I met a women in a small….village…well not sure if you could call it a village, we rode the moto along a small path through the bushes to arrive at her place, but anyway this lady who didn’t look…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Local People, Musings
January 13, 2011
What’d you do today?
Whenever I talk to my mother she of course asks, “What’d you do today?” So I decided to show in detail what a typical weekend day is like in Dassa-Zoumé. 10:00ish am I wake up to the Italian staring at…
Did that really just happen?
Today the Italian and I returned from Ghana to Benin. Upon crossing the Beninese border and getting our passports stamped the Italian needed to go to the bathroom. At first they pointed him to the public restroom which meant a…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Musings, Race Relations
January 6, 2011
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“Sorry Ma’am, this is the priority line.”
A mere three months into 2013 and I have already taken 13 flights and clocked over 20,000 miles, ensuring that I will sail through the first hurdle of maintaining Silver Medallion status for next year. I will admit my personal
Hardly Home but ALWAYS Reppin – DETROIT!
I was born and raised in Detroit and had an absolutely wonderful childhood there and most of my friends today are from Detroit. Telling people that I am from Detroit, no matter where I am in the world, more times
Airline Loyalty
Whether you fly once a week, once a month or once a year you should be saving your airline miles. Even if you do not always fly the same carrier you should join each of the major airline partnerships to
The Mojave Desert
In January, while gallivanting on the west coast, I had the chance to assist on one of Elton Anderson’s sets. Funnily enough he was shooting an old friend, DJ B Hen, Hollywood’s Champion of Sound. After tossing back some green
Eating LA
I spent the first two weeks of the year in LA and as I was with Elton, he introduced me to lots of very good restaurants in the city. Lemonade Upon landing, we drove straight to Lemonade. I am always
First thoughts on Buenos Aires
My decision to come to Buenos Aires was perhaps a rash one. I knew nothing about the city nor the country. In fact the only countries in the region I know anything about are the typical tourist gateways, i.e. Brazil