Benin travel stories

Mmm... Water

I was sitting in class the other day with a few others, listening to Ghislain lecture about the benefits and how-to’s of a tree nursery. Goes without saying that I was not paying attention. (Funn...

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Maple-land

The Iroko in the previously-placed picture is one of my favorite trees, but moving quickly up the list of favorites is Somba, which definitely has to be in the same family as the maple tree. The le...

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Ms. Kraus' Class

Dear Ms. Kraus’ Class: 1) My dear Jacob- No, I did not eat the snake I found on my porch. What actually happened was that a friend of mine found out that another guy had trapped the snake, so...

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Re-locating my Bossy Toes

My biggest worry is that all I will do in Athieme is talk, and not necessarily talk about relevant issues, but just drink beer and sodabi and just shoot the breeze. What if I am a person that likes...

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Men and Women

In Philadelphia, just before all the pink-cheeked Benin Volunteers of 2005 left for that country, a previous volunteer told us to remove the blue-tinted glasses to observe and learn about the cultu...

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