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Travel Blogs from Kara, Togo
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Hodge-podge
This is a top pick! The other day I came home from school, walked into my house, and found a chicken bawk-bawking about! It had come in, I assume, through the kitty hole in my back screen door. It certainly made me jump out of my skin when I first discovered it! I shooed ...
More Photos
This is a top pick! Hello Everyone, I have added some more pictures to the entry about the Peuhl marriage, but it is taking forever to upload them. I wondered if it might be shorter if I uploaded them to a different entry, one that doesn't have any pictures yet. These ...
Girls Club, Theatre and Ghana
This is a top pick! Okay, I just saw a goat and her baby stroll right past the door of the internet cafe, with cars roaring past on the paved road nearby. Will I ever get used to these things? I hope not. If I did, I might not have as many easy laughs. Anyway, the ...
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Following the Gaddi shepherds [trek day 2]
This is a top pick! I managed to avoid the dreaded early-morning call of nature yesterday, but this morning I had to drag myself out of my cosy sleeping bag into the crisp dawn, and then find a suitable rock. There is no lack of those, though in future I might go earlier ...
Cheese, Women's Day, Soccer
This is a top pick! Yes, we have internet in N'Dali now! Miracle, isn't it. No electricity, yet, we DO have internet. How is this possible, you might ask? Well, the Catholic priests (RICH RICH RICH), who have everything, have now opened an cybercafe (minus the cafe) ...
A Day in the Life of a Project and other tales
This is a top pick! This morning I woke up early, felt as though I hadn't really ever fallen asleep. Stephen shifted in the bunk above, causing my bed to creak and shake. I sighed, closed my eyes and tried to shut out the sounds and follow my breath, regain my sommeil. A ...
African Christian Wedding
Ah, the weekend. As much as I was looking forward to a long Saturday and Sunday spent hiding out in my house, reading the French novels I just picked up at the book store and napping happily away, yet again, it was not to be. As usual, however, the trade ...
A day in the life of
Just so you know it's not all uproarious conversations with dashing and gregarious Béninois who propose marriage on the first meeting and hold out hope despite my anxiously-awaiting nearly betrothed (true story), I thought I'd share a couple less than ...
Baturé!
(The following entry should be read in my usual laughing, sarcastic tone and not as a serious comment on any society or the current state of race relations in any nation or internationally. It is simply a random anecdote from no particular day of my ...
Causer avec les gens (Chatting with people)
Before you read this entry, take a guess at what you think the hardest thing to get used to in Africa is for an American (this one anyway). The heat? The poverty? Being the only white person? Seriously. Think about it for a second. An American ...
Not Even Squirming
"God is on his throne, and he's not even squirming." Jim, our Interim Benin-Togo Area Director, in the short time I knew him, seemed to be known for such encouraging and challenging one-liners as the one above. He's a wise man and a bit of a wise guy. ...
Last entry from Benin
Six Things a Westerner (or this one anyway) Would Never Consider Doing Outside of Africa [and a brief attempt to explain the logic, or lack thereof, behind them] (Note: this list was intended to be at least four points longer in true David Letterman ...
Bonne arrivee!
"Bonne arrivée! Bonne arrivée!" Every smiling face, every warm handshake. "Bonne arrivée! Bonne arrivée!" Shouts across the courtyard, nods in the kitchen, everyone welcoming me (lit. good arrival) "Bienvenue au Bénin!" I felt very welcome. My first ...
Baptism, Preschool and French Lessons!
... ! Hannah (one of the fifth graders) was baptized! We all hiked to a beautiful waterfall about twenty minutes outside of Kara. The mountains were all around and were so beautiful! They were all so completely covered with different shades of green with ...
Cameras and Colds
What a week! I hope that this post finds you in wonderful health and contentment! I hear that the weather has cooled off in the past few nights in GA! The weather was pretty dry and hot this week...until Saturday night when it stormed all night and ...
A fast week!
... fuel here so please keep praying for the fuel trucks to get through soon! Propane...which everyone cooks with...has not been available in Togo for the past year, but now we cannot get fuel without going to the South...or the North...or the West...or the ...
Nearing A Break!
... thing to do to help me reevaluate my teaching and such and so it shall be done! Our new students will come to Kara with the Millers and Reeves when they get back from Rwanda. The Kennell's will arrive in Accra the day before the Millers ...
Dr. Livingston I presume?
... for 15 hours, sitting in the Amsterdam airport for 6 hours, spending the night in Ghana and driving for 12 hours....I am back in Kara! The drive was not supposed to be that long...usually it is only 8 hours, but we lost...more obliterated...two belts on ...
Trying to Digest
Life has been proceeding as normal for the past little while and I think of all of you at home, glued to your computer screens, on the edge of your rolling office chairs, waiting for the next installment of my so-called-adventure that I still am ...
And the Rain Rain Rain came down down down...
... and our hotel was on the beach with AC in the rooms!! The dad's and Daniel and Bennett held down the fort here in Kara while we were gone. Matt Miller, Daniel and Bennett were nice enough to fill in for me at school. We got back on Friday ...
shea butter, sign language and chambres de passage
... then the winners of each round contiune onto the final at the end of the month, which is televised nationally! So, in Kara... - I decided Togolese food is MILES better than (most) Burkinabe food, since they have discovered chili peppers! - I befriended ...
Honey, There are no Piranhas in Africa...
... which...correct me if I'm wrong...is the point! ;) We are leaving on Wednesday morning to go to Lome (the capital of Togo) for Thanksgiving with some other missionaries. We will be there until Saturday and then drive back up. I hope you all are ...
Togo!
Hey everyone! Well, after an 11 hour drive with 11 people...we arrived in Togo on Monday night. One of my bags got left in London, but arrived the next night. Because of that, we had to stay in Ghana an extra day. I am living with the ...
Moving on...
I have made my last move of my time in Togo! I am now living at the Kennell's house (they are the family that moved here in November). The mango's are almost ripe and there are going to be a ton of them so long as we don't get a frost...haha!! I am ...
Sunday "Out"
This morning I decided to venture from my comfort zone of the familiar compound and go to church by myself in one of the places described to me by Fiona, although I couldn't at all picture in my mind where she meant. So, at just after 9 AM, because ...
Chauves souris
The sound of fruit bats fills the air like the music of a thousand squeaky toys being jumped on in sporadic harmony. When I first saw them I thought, "That looked like a bat, but it was way too big." Indeed. They fill the sky even in the day. As much as ...
Le Grand Marché
Every second I learn or experience something new. One thing I hope to learn is posture! Every African from the moment they stand has such a proud, straight back and high-held head. No wonder the women manage to carry such heavy things on their perfectly ...
New Baby
"Children are a gift from God; they are his reward. Children born to a man are like sharp arrows to defend him. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them..." Psalm 127:3-5 There's nothing in the human experience that brings more joy, more ...
One, Two, Three...BREAK!
Hello to all and one! I hope that you are having a splendid week! Is the weather cool where you are? I talked to a friend of mine in Colorado a few weeks ago and it was snowing there! Needless to say...it is NOT snowing here, but ...
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