We had a great weekend, and I was impatient to write about it! On Friday afternoon we decided to take an alternate route to the supermarket and ended up in little streets where people actually live, rather than the big roads with ministries we had so far only been on. It was something I had been waiting for. Walking amongst people going about their daily business, being greeted by some (but not followed by persistent vendors), I felt I was finally amongst the people of this city.
alixpahaut
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Alix
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Pahaut
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The seventh day
26 September 2008
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Seth is American and is also interning at the WFP, as part of his Masters, and Tcherno is from Senegal and is doing research for his PhD at the ‘Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement’. Their exchanges are pretty funny, including some discussions on the differences between American and African girlfriends :p Tcherno was also proud to show us the ‘boubou’ (dress for a man, kind of like a djellabah in the Middle East) he had made especially for the end of Ramadan celebration, Eid-el-Fitr.
African dances
25 September 2008
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The moment we look at an object for more than five seconds, or the moment we step in the shop's direction- unless we were able to say 'no thank you' and walk away, which is so far difficult- the dance begins. I might assure that I am not planning to buy anything and just want to look- as he himself suggested- but this is worthless. I am inside, so there is a chance I will buy something. The owner will pick an object and praise its quality, highlight the camel bone or elephant hair or detail in the craft.
What does the WFP do in Burkina?
25 September 2008
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I don't want to be too academic, but I do want to tell you a bit about what exactly the WFP does here in Burkina Faso. I will try to be as concise as possible :)
First impressions
22 September 2008
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We're getting along very well, which is nice of course, I'm quite sure she'd tell you the same thing :) We've started keeping a sort of video-diary which I'm hoping to upload somewhere at some point.. but it's fun to film ourselves and share how we feel with the camera. So far it's mainly us two giggling like a pair of twelve-year-olds.
