It’s burning season in the Collines. Every year, once the dry season has started, people burn all the grasses and low-lying shrubs. So the sky fills with smoke, there is burning ash all over the place, and it is means it’s time to hunker down because the dry-hot season is Read more…
Classes have started. Well, sort of. At least some classes have started. This last week was officially the first week of classes, but schedules and what not are more of guidelines around here. For the most part, the kids spent the week clearing the land and getting the school ready 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…
So for the last two weeks I have been away from home visiting my future post/school. The first three months or so I’ve been living in Porto-Novo for training, but for two weeks in the middle of it they send us up to our posts so we can kind of Read more…