Benin travel stories

Good News

The good news is that I found the town library. I borrowed a great little book of poems that I am just loving. The better news is that CLAC, the library, is in my neighborhood, on my way home. The ...

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The Power of Africa

I have thought of an amusing analogy to explain a part of my life. This just came to me, so be flexible. Imagine yourself on a lovely walk in the woods. It’s a beautiful day and everything arou...

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Home

I feel like I can better describe my home to you now. Home turf starts, after a long trip’s end and the deposition of myself from the taxi, at the carre-four between the goudron to Lokossa and t...

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Hmm… 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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