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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…