Craig and Heather's Excellent Beninois Adventure
02 September 2012
29 August 2012
26 August 2012
24 August 2012
23 August 2012
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
03 August 2012
27 July 2012
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