Monthly Archives: June 2012

Midnight snack time!

We woke up at 1 am the other night to laughter and tinny clunks and lots of people noise.  It had just rained the previous evening, so the timing was right for the big termites to come flying out of …

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11 Weddings rolled into one! A LOOOOOONG day!

5:20 am Time to decorate the “limo”

6:30ish Finished product!

7:00 Time to pick up Benoit (CEFA Ag director) & Laurentine who actually have been living as husband and wife for 34 years, ala village
7:05 Find out the pastor/speaker …

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Our garden


This lily was brightly waiting for us in our side yard when we arrived!

Apparently the yard was a total jungle, so we are excited to have it looking so good in so short a time. We’ll be eating the …

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Hosting


We are back in full swing, unpacked and settled in. We had a group of Peace Corps people show up unexpectedly the other day, interested in seeing the ag development going on. We had them in for lunch – I …

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Jumping through the hoops – oops!

So we’re back on the African continent, and that meant signing up again for cell phone coverage and internet.  It also meant buying new phones, as we had left one back in Gamboula and we had given our other one …

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Crazy panic kilikili – chicken with its head cut off?!?!

Okay, so the last days in Indiana and the first days in Africa were not as calm and organized as I had dreamed.  Surprise!  I was thinking of that old saying “running around like a chicken with its head cut …

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