Brian in Benin
September Post
I know it’s been a while since I last wrote, but that is mostly because nothing has been happening. During the summer life slows down quite a bit in village, and not a lot of excitement is to be had. Read more
No More Teachers
I haven’t updated for a couple of weeks, but that is mostly because nothing that exciting has really happened. I’m glad to say that I am done with teaching for the school year, which is good because the last couple Read more
Big Bad Giant
The school year is starting to wind down now, only a couple of weeks left in the school year. The last couple of weeks it’s been nice and rainy, just the way I like it, and you can sort of Read more
Camp Bouca
Back in village now after the Easter break. The schools here have a week and a half long break for Easter (I suspect that it is that long in part because it typically coincides with the start of the rainy Read more
My Crib/The Rains Came
Great news, the rains have started. This last week we had a couple of solid rainstorms at night. Still hasn’t brought any more water to my well, but that should be coming soon. This week is the April break for Read more
My Peulh Post
So I was planning on putting up some pictures of my house, but my connection right now isn’t quite strong enough to upload pictures. Not a whole lot of excitement over the last week. The well is still dry, still Read more
Funishment
Been a few weeks so it’s about time for an update of sorts. This next week is midterms, so the last week or so of classes have just been review sessions. We’ll see how well the kids do; my guess Read more
All’s Well that Ends Well
A little bit of tidbits to report since I last wrote. The week before last I was back in Porto-Novo for another round of training, which was nice because I got to have running water and air conditioning again. Another Read more