Ça fait deux jours! It’s been two days! That’s the crazy French way of saying it’s been a while! Since Dad left I have been hiding in village and actually WORKING! Things have progressed with my English club and have enjoyed getting to know my students. The title of this blog is a quote from [...]
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Greetings from a thankfully cooler Burkina Faso (but if your dad, its hot)! We have arrived again in the “Cold Season” where the Burkinabé dress for a blizzard. It still amuses me to see them in their winter coats, gloves, hats, earmuffs, scarves, etc, however, I have to admit, that I find myself a bit [...]
Ne y taabo! Bonne Fête! Happy Holiday! Excuse me for my long absence. I have been a busy bee working away in my village! After welcoming the new trainees and helping them get settled into the wonderful world of Burkina Faso, I went back to site and got down to business. It’s been an interesting [...]
Welcome back to The BF! I am safely back in Burkina… and SWEATING! Thanks to everyone that made my time in the States AWESOME! It was so great to see so many friends and family that have been following what I do. The 3 weeks flew by and I honestly have no idea where they [...]
Greetings from AMERICALAND! Yes, as I’m sure all of you know I am home visiting (if you didnt well… I’m state side for a few weeks!) Lets back up a bit as there was some time in village between my last post and me coming home. It turns out that I didn’t actually have a [...]
If I ever write a book on my adventures and things learned as a Peace Corps Volunteer that will be the title. Nassara: Bien Integré? Nassara is the name I am called, oh so often, especially in the big cities which translates from Mooré into “foreigner”. Here in Burkina people are described by physical appearances [...]
After 5 months of being in village, I finally have moved into my (mud) house!!! Yes, the house is made with mud bricks and mud to hold everything together. I still have not quite figured out how it can dry out so much and when it rains…. It doesn’t become mud again. The mysteries of [...]
Greetings from the inferno of West Africa! We are almost done with training were we got to spend some quality time in the south of the country in the second largest city in Burkina, Bobo. Instantly, all of the volunteers from the north were jealous upon arrival. It was green and lush, but also very [...]
Ok, so you are going to get spoiled with a second blog post in the same week. Please don’t expect this all the time. I still live in the middle of nowhere Africa, but for the time being we don’t have trainings and things that normally occupy time when there is access to internet. So [...]
Greetings from Burkina again! There has been a lot going on here recently. The last training went really well. Learned a bit more Mooré and headed back to village after a week of training. Hung out there and prepared a couple of weeks later to head out for the next training session that would last [...]
Greetings from Burkina Faso once again! We have been volunteers for 3 months now and Peace Corps does training throughout our service, and one of the trainings is 3 months in. So now we are all doing language training for a week in our regional capitals with 3 other fellow volunteers from my group. So [...]
Greetings from Burkina once again! Please excuse my month long absence as i have not left my village since the last post. But I am here now! I hope this finds everyone well and warm March is here and I told my mom the other day I dont know where the time has gone. It [...]
Laura speaks mooré small small is the translation of the title
So it has been one month since I arrived in my village and things are going great! minus the hiccup with my house but that is being resolved slowly but surely. I have confidence I will be there before long but I am getting a good lesson on the pace of village life!!! Things do [...]
Whew! Where to begin? It has been a crazy week! I guess I’ll start from the beginning (or the end of the last post!) I am officially a VOLUNTEER! WOOO! The ceremony was nice. It was held at the US ambassadors house in Ouaga (the capital). It didn’t last terribly long so afterwards we all [...]
So, it has been a while since I have last posted. Things have been crazy busy with the end of training which means lots of workshops and presentations. A week and a half a go we went on Tech Week, which was really just a weekend visiting a currently serving volunteer. It was great to [...]
So, it has been a while since I have last posted. Things have been crazy busy with the end of training which means lots of workshops and presentations. A week and a half a go we went on Tech Week, which was really just a weekend visiting a currently serving volunteer. It was great to [...]
Another week has passed, which means its been 6 weeks since my arrival in Burkina. We have about 3 more left before we become volunteers! The last week was another busy one. We got to celebrate Thanksgiving and we invited our LCF’s (Language and cultural facilitators – burkinabe) to partake in the feast. They came [...]
It has been another busy week here in Burkina. I will start from right after my last post on Saturday. Saturday evening my family somehow acquired 4 owls. I am not sure why or how. They are baby owls and right now they are white. There is one that is much much smaller than the [...]
So, there is a lot to adjust to here in Africa, among the noises and change of pace in life I have also had to deal with the feeling of being dirty/sweaty and actually being dirty. One of the things that I am struggling with is my feet. For those of you that know me [...]
Life continues to go on in Burkina! The past couple days I have been feeling a bit under the weather, but nothing out of the “usual” for PC volunteers! This usually means that its just bouts of diarrhea….. fun fun! I’m hoping that it doesn’t turn into anything more. So a lot of you want [...]
Hello from Burkina! I had a blog post all typed up but the computer at the cyber will not read it so i will do my best on a foreign keyboard to type it up. We arrived in burkina over a week a go and so far it has been amazing. we were greeted by [...]
So, the time that I thought would never come has finally arrived. When my application was submitted in January, it felt like the waiting process was taking forever. They told me October, but even then I was still skeptical. Now, October is here and I leave for Philly in the morning and go to Burkina [...]
Since many people don’t know much about Burkina, let alone WHERE it is, I thought I would provide some information about my new home and a little more about what I might be doing. ** Don’t forget you can subscribe to my blog just to the right >>> you will get an email to confirm [...]
Hello everyone, Thank you for visiting my blog. I will try to update it as often as possible while I am away for my Peace Corps Service in Burkina Faso. But, as many of you know, electricity may be hard to come by which means that Internet may not always be available. It is, however, [...]
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