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Quotes from the Trip: Accra
“I think you have malaria.” “So how is Benin?” “Poor” (the Italian) “You want me to pay double to have air conditioning?” (Francis to a taxi driver) “You think because we don’t speak Thwee we have money growing on trees?”…
Tags: Africa, Ghana, Musings, Quotes From the Trip
January 4, 2011
A Series of Unfortunate Events: On going to Ghana
Our original plan for New Year’s Eve was to head to Uganda and celebrate with friends and family but the flight from Cotonou was $1400 and from Lagos it was only $900 but everyone refused to drive us the mere…
An Ode to Tom’s
A new craze in the fashion world in the last year has been Tom’s shoes. Comfortable shoes that most people find as ugly as Uggs (also one of my favorite pairs of shoes). I believe @dreamhampton once referred to them…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Musings, shoes, Tom's
December 29, 2010
A Black Expat in Benin
Being an expat in a country of all black people is a very interesting experience. On the one hand I love that I can move about undetected without having people run up to me or harass me in the market…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Expat Life, Musings, Race, Race Relations
Merry Christmas?
From when we are children, we learn that Christmas is the most important holiday of the year, not necessarily because of Jesus Christ, because a lot of people I know don’t even go to church on Christmas. Christmas is the…
C’est violet!!!!
So I have decided to grow my hair back since it is so cheap to get my hair braided while in Benin. This is the second time that I got my hair braided and was still excited by the $13…
December 20, 2010
What’s that noise?
I thought I heard popcorn popping outside of my window and my mouth began to water in anticipation of a salty little treat that the nuns might let me steal a little bit of. When I looked out of the…
December 18, 2010
A Day in the Life
Yesterday we traveled to the two furthest villages that are covered by our programs in order to give the mothers of the children their monthly allowance for breakfast, money that comes from their sponsors in Italy. This meant a 30…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Development, Musings
December 15, 2010
“Is that a Cadillac?”
This past weekend we traveled to Cotonou which is Benin’s largest city and about a five hour bumpy and hot bus ride away. While there we went to Benin Marina Hotel for drinks one evening, which is apparently the best…
Tags: Africa, Benin, Development, Musings
My Life in Benin: The New Normal
As with anything in life you have to adjust to new surroundings, that means many things that before my have been strange become normal. Below I have listed some of these things. Dial-up internet: I remember in 7th grade when…
December 4, 2010
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Buenos dias from Buenos Aires!!
If you follow me on Instagram, you already know that I am in Buenos Aires. I have been here for two days now and I am finally coming out of recovery mode. After three flights and 21 hours of door-to-door
Shooting Detroit
A few weeks back my friend Devin and I finally got together to photography in Detroit. It was the first time in a long time that we were both in Detroit at the same time. He also brought his friend
Runyon Canyon Park
My trip to LA was meant to be a mind, body and soul retreat. I am not sure if my hosts knew that before I arrived, but everyone was definitely on board when I announced it. I have been in
A Vision Board Party
I have been in LA for five days now and have been having an amazing time. Prior to coming here, I knew that this would be the trip that would allow me to start the prep work for sorting out
Welcome 2013
I brought in the new year in Los Angeles with an amazing group of people. My LA clique is composed of @L10_MIA @kelechiakalu and @jrbland. To bring in the new year we went to a house party and though I
Year End Review: Goodbye 2012
I cannot believe that today is the last day of 2012. It seems like just yesterday I wrote my year-end post, reflecting at all of the travel and life experiences that I had in 2011. It seems like just yesterday