Dear Family and Friends, I hope everyone is enjoying those last few days of summer. I thought I would give a quick update on life in Burkina. A lot has been going on since I last wrote, or perhaps I should say growing on. (That’s my dad’s humor). It is the crux of [...]

Dear Family and Friends, Sorry it has taken me awhile to send an update. I recently went on vacation with my mom to Florence. We had a wonderful time taking in all the pleasures of the city, but I felt I shouldn’t write about that because of course you all want to hear about [...]

31 July 2007 The rainy season has officially started (for real this time). For the last week and a half it has been raining sporadically every day. My village friends ask if I have been traveling because they haven’t seen me in so long, but it is actually me who has not seen them [...]

The village has been in quite a stir for the last few days. After over a year of waiting, the fetish has finally come out, and the Gourunsi people of *** are celebrating, aka dancing and drinking dolo for 4 days straight. Needless to say, I haven’t been doing much work this week. [...]

Before coming to Africa, most of my friends were puzzled at how I was going to deal with all the bugs there. In case you don’t know I hate bugs. And I made this clear in the states by screaming, squirming, jumping, smashing, and just plain complaining about bugs. [...]

Living in the jungle is crazy….oh and by jungle I mean dry deserted land. Here’s some of the ways I pass the days. Hope you enjoy. Today I woke up around 6am, cranky again. The hot season has started and every night despite sleeping under my hangar, it is too hot and humid [...]

Dear Family and Friends, Hello! I am in the capital right now enjoying the sites of Festpaco, the African film festival that takes place every 2 years here. Last night I saw two American films at the festival, though was very annoyed because although they were based in English speaking African countries, they were [...]

So I thought I would send an email letting you all know about some of the work I have already started in village. Some people had been asking me about this. Honestly as of now my work is very ill defined. A lot of it consists of just talking with people, adapting [...]

After listening to countless conversations in Moore, most of which only a few words were discernable, I have noticed that two words are used quite often. I found this both very interesting and odd. The first word is Ligidi, or money. I read somewhere a clip of a man who told another [...]

All, So I thought I would write a little more about village life. This week I definitely got my spirituality quota in. I went to church on Sunday and again on Thursday. Thursday was a special day and most of the village was there as well as a priest from ***. This [...]