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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…