April 4, 2008
#4: Mythbusters & Discoveries
It’s so incredibly hot right now with the sizzle from the hot desert afternoon sun that it’s become unbearable to just sit around by myself in my dark bedroom counting the hours until there’s a spark of electricity and I can get back to my cool as a cucumber routine [...]
April 5, 2008
African Journal #4: Sala’am Alla’am
April 5, 2008
African Journal #3: The Saharan Heat
April 1, 2008
Sizzling Temperatures and Ice Cold Coca Cola
Sannu!
My goodness, the heat is climbing upwards each day I wake up to the desert sun of Birnin Kebbi, and it even continues into the night – which isn’t pleasant to bear when the electricity decides to black out and we’re stuck laying in bed in the [...]
April 5, 2008
African Journal #2: Sweet Home Sweet, Birnin-Kebbi
March 22, 2008
Second Week In Birnin Kebbi
Sanu, friends!
What an absolutely crazy week I had! Where do I start????
Last weekend, Erin, Zach and I traveled to Argungu, a small fishing village half an hour east of Birnin Kebbi in the principal’s car and endured the hot desert heat to attend the annual world-famous Kebbi State Fishing [...]
April 5, 2008
African Journal #1: Nigeria Welcomes Coco!
March 17, 2008
First Update from Africa!!
Sanu, everybody! I am sitting in the local internet cafe shielded from the hot desert sun and thrilled to finally be able to get some internet access and get the message out to y’all loud and clear: I AM DOING GREAT!
Of course, there was some wahala (problems) and stomach churning [...]
