Flat Tire
On Wednesday afternoon, Saturnin (one of our local employees) and I headed to one of the primary schools covered by our program. It is about 30 minute ride and the 90 degree heat coupled with the beaming sun made it…
Correction
I would like to amend an earlier post when I referred to our ride to Cotonou as hell. Sadly I was mistaken about what hell is but i think I'm a little closer to finding out. Two incidences helped me…
Don’t Forget to Check Out!!
So when we left for Cotonou on Wednesday, apparently we didn't mention it to anyone at the convent. On Sunday when we returned, before we even stepped foot on the porch, I heard one of the nuns (I refer to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…