Great news, the rains have started. The other night we had a real nice storm, it rained off and on through the evening and night. This is of course great news because it means that it won’t be quite so unbearably hot all the time. March is without a doubt Read more…
The New Year is on us, and school has started back up. Harmattan is starting to finish up now, but this year harmattan has been much stronger then last year (both colder and longer lasting). With harmattan over, the hot dry season (chaleur) will be starting up before we know Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…