- moto rides
- fans blowing right at you
- bisap juice and gengen
- muffins
- the Niger river
- successfully riding the sotrama
- making people smile/carrying on successful, albeit short, conversations in bamanakan
- a new phone card
- tata's cooking
- plantains
- fabric
- getting really into my bogolan work
- the insights of the other students
- seeing beautiful scarification
- seeing bats
- funny t-shirts in english
- that telemundo soap opera dubbed in french with marina and ricardo
- getting clothes made at the tailor
- the call to prayer
- being blessed by little old ladies
- slow progress with everything
- tamachek culture
- craving ritz crackers and sharp cheddar cheese, and knowing how easy it will be to get in december
- having a new value for money, and things, and everything
- the realization that i am living in a house entirely in french and bamanakan and there have been no real disasters, just a couple small ones
- learning to eat rice with my hands
oct 11 2008 ∞
jan 24 2009 +
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