Benin...By The Numbers

1 bout of malaria

1 coup d’état

1 nutritional recuperation project

1 safari

1 new family

1 dramatic fainting spell

1 monkey on a van

2 languages/dialects spoken

2 week-long girls’ camps

2 FSOT tests

2 English clubs

2 bloody noses

2 neighborhood births

3 vacations

3 rounds of Cipro

3 well buckets (2 were lost)

3 instances of heat rash

4 visitors

5 toenails lost (Heather)

5 girls’ scholarships sponsored

6 African countries visited (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Morocco, Togo)

8 quarterly reports

26 months

Countless:

• ·         Bush taxis/zemijans
• ·         Fêtes
• ·         Books read and movies/TV shows watched
• ·         Misunderstandings
• ·         Goats on motos
• ·         Loads of hand washed clothes
• ·         Vodoun altars
• ·         Changes of future plans
• ·         Bike tire patches
• ·         Avocado sandwiches or street meat/goat sandwiches
• ·         Embarrassing stories
• ·         Photos
• ·         Miles traversed via bicycle
• ·         New memories and friends