It’s October, the rains are slowing, and the school year is hopefully right around the corner. I’ve been busy the last month or so with Peace Corps training and seeing other volunteers, and also shocking my neighbors by remaining in village when school isn’t in session. Rainy season still is Read more…
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. Mostly this is because people clear out during the summer Read more…
They call this time of year vacance, and since I don’t own any farm land it’s basically dead time. It’s the heart of the rainy season (more on that) so people are out in the fields all days planting. This means that the village itself is dead pretty much all Read more…
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 of weeks both the students and myself really weren’t that Read more…
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 tell that things are slowing down at the school. Our Read more…
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 season so that students can help their families plant crops Read more…
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 schoohl, so I’m going up to help work at a Read more…
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 hit or miss on finding help to bring water back. Read more…
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 is that some will do very well, and others very Read more…
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 nice part of being back in Porto-Novo was being able Read more…