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…
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?"…
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…
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…
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…
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…