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I don’t know if Derique is shedding more, or it I am sweeping less, but there is A LOT of dog hair in my home. Gross. He’s lucky I like him, otherwise I would kick him out. That, and he made doggie-doors for himself. He even made a doggie-door in the fence; however, he waits patiently for me to open doors for him, rather than using his own.

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Erika Kraus
2006-08-28 19:38:03

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I don’t know if Derique is shedding more, or it I am sweeping less, but there is A LOT of dog hair in my home. Gross. He’s lucky I like him, otherwise I would kick him out. That, and he made doggie-doors for himself. He even made a doggie-door in the fence; however, he waits patiently for me to open doors for him, rather than using his own.

The swallows are constructing a new home, on my porch again. If my world were perfect, I would knock down every bit of this old home except the porch, and reconstruct a nice three-room apartment with an outdoor shower and latrine. Then I wouldn’t have to put up with big and old house issues, and I could keep my yard with flowers and grass, and my swallows. I also saw a long, green, slender snake with a distinct blue head on the door of the unused room. Koudjo thought that it might be trying to eat the swallows’ eggs. It was a beautiful snake, but not in my animal book.
March 8th, every year, is International Women’s Day. The Girls’ Club made posters to hang around town. A few examples of the posters are:
- Every Girl at School!
- Two heads are better than one; Both men and women are necessary in the development of Benin!
- Continue the Fight for Women’s Rights!
- She is your Mother, Grandmother, Aunt, Sister, and Cousin, and she loves you!

Etc., etc. We hung them up around town the Tuesday night before. I had bought kind of expensive glue for the two groups, but once we got started, we learned that akassa works much better. And, Yolande could snack.
So after all our work, the Wednesday came and we hadn’t even planned a party for ourselves. I took them to the buvette, and we all got drunk. Okay, just kidding. We all had a pop. It was fun.

The Sisters sucked me in to teaching English in two half-hour sections one day a week for four weeks. Gah! English! And then Mathurin found out, so after Easter, I will ...