Hello everyone,
It’s been a very successful Saturday here in Benin by all
accounts. In the morning we learned about fuel efficient mud stoves, which we
will practice building next week. The volunteer I am replacing actually did a
lot of work teaching people how to build and use them. I am sure that I will
still wind up teaching a few people how to build and maintain mud stoves, but a
lot of ground has been covered there already. I was encouraged to hear that
/maintaining/ them is actually a topic that doesn’t get covered very much. I
might have a unique opportunity to follow up with people and really re-affirm
effective long term use.
After that I had Bariba class (local language) with a tutor.
He’s a young guy, and he’s kind of new to teaching, but he is enthusiastic
about the material, and I am really glad to get some extra time in with Bariba
before getting back to my post.
In the afternoon we had a talent show that some of the other
volunteers organized. Over all it was a pretty impressive event. Lots of
surprisingly good singing and guitar playing, a quality improve sketch, some
cooking, some water balancing, you know, all the basics. I had dreams of doing
a little bit of colorguard, but it wasn’t exactly easy to jury rig a weighted
flag, so sadly that didn’t happen. It was really fun to watch the show though.
In the afternoon I got to make talli talli with my host
mama. Talli talli is easy-to-make fried banana dough balls, perfect for your
almost too ripe bananas. This was very exciting because I haven’t gotten to
cook much here. We chatted a little about Swear-In. It was generally a calm,
sociable evening.
We are all starting to think more and more about the move to
post. I hope making friends is easily there! I’ve started making a list of things
that I would like to pick up here in the south where they are cheaper. We will
see how that goes. Little by little, petit-a-petit!
That’s about it for now. Thanks for reading.
With Love,
Lauren
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