So to start things up....A BIG THANKS to everyone who donated to my Women's Millet Grinder...the proposal is filled!!! Just getting ready to head back to my village and start up with some serious meetings. Get the house built for the new millet grinder then in a matter of a few weeks my women's group leader and I will be making the purchase. So thanks to everyone for their support!!
And the bad? Well, there was a landmine yesterday in the capital, Niamey. Actually within a few kilometers from the Peace Corps hostel. Creepy? yes.
Read about it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7178529.stm
The creepier part is that no one has claimed responsibility for this landmine, or the others that were set in December. Yesterday we weren't allowed to leave the hostel for a few hours, then were only allowed to go places by foot. But today, it's life back to normal.
So back from America with probably 50 pounds of dried fruit, thanks to my mama. And lots of other food, after all who knows when I'll see a place like Costco again till the end of my service?! I even took some pictures of the grocery store: eggs, milk, chickens and produce. I'll try to explain the concept of how we buy stuff from the grocery stores. A little bit bizarre?
I put up some of Lauren's pictures on my Flickr website. Unfortunately, when I was robbed, all my pictures from the last 6 months or so were stolen with my camera. So those will never go up. But for now, I'll leave with a picture Lauren took: my friend's 8-month old baby chewing on a raw chicken head, right after it was cut off the chicken we were about to eat. Someone get these babies pacifiers! Normal? Lauren didn't think so. I don't even know anymore!
