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Pointe Noire,
Congo
Thursday, November 6, 2008
and sale. Julie passed along the
invite, so we knew there would be good people there. We've known for a while that this French family lived a few
doors down from us, but they have a five-month old baby and we have a school to
run, so we hadn't had a chance to meet yet. What's a coffee and sale? We didn't know either, and the invite came via text message,
so I didn't ask. It turns out it
is the first of many opportunities to buy some locally produced merchandise
hawked by women within the French expatriate community. An early Christmas bazaar, of
sorts. It was a small crowd and a
short walk, so all in all a nice way to pass an hour or so and make the
acquaintance of our neighbor. We
even came away with a new acquaintance's phone number who is interested in
exchanging French/English lessons over coffee on a regular'ish basis.
The rains have been more consistent, and the dirt roads are
going to pot(holes) in a serious way.
Luckily, we only have three roads, a total of maybe half a mile, to go
until the paved road. But our main
access road is blocked at the end while they install a sidewalk (which for some
reason is crossing the road), and the detour road one over is a pathetic minefield
of bumps and dips. The most annoying
aspect of it all is the intense chorus of frogs that springs up with the
puddles. Apparently we live in the
part of town that was previously a swamp, so the water collects quickly and the
frogs do what they do en masse. We
have plenty of experience with Massachusetts peepers, but these are some
deep-voiced singers and it sounds like a crowd that could fill Madison Square
Garden . The weather has been
getting hotter and the skies clearer overall, so it's not a bad trade-off.
Oh, by the way - GO OBAMA!! Woo-hoo!
