Last days of a great adventure

Africa » Benin
June 16th 2008

Published: June 26th 2008

Ecoutché, Adado, Thank you and goodbye!!!! Thank you for the memories, the adventures, teaching me how to eat Yam pulli with my hands and pumping the water for me. Thank you for being patience while I stumbled along with my French, and for the laughter while I tried to speak Tcha. But it is time to say goodbye. How do I say goodbye to a village, a culture, a school and people, who I know have cha... Read Full Entry

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final art and craft club

too cute!!!!

first and only snake

The snake was in a pottery jar at the back of the school. I saw the kids throwing stuff in the jar and then running like mad away, they were real freaked by the snake, they hate them. the teachers too were not all that keen, but after lots of sticks and running away, it came out and was bashed to the ground. All very traumatic!!

a kiss from the sky for my birthday

me on hill for my birthday morning sunrise

karin and me

birthday breakie

The teachers and me

Final meeting and meal. They are all wearing the friendship braclets I gave as a prezzie Fatai CP, Mustapha CE2, Germain CI, Florance M2a, Leocadi M2b, Cossi CM2, Director in front Boniface CM2, Froncaise Librarian, Me, Beatrice M1, Kristope CE1.

some students from my english club

painting the tree....

.... and my arm, nose and leg, and their uniform, the ground, their hair.....

assembling the tree

my tree

a gift for the school

the huge sacred tree

hygiene

The school moto is - Nature, Tradition, Hygiene. Three equally important principals often forgotten within their current life styles

water carriers

smiley faces

running, jumping and swinging in the morning

Na Kukpa - Karins sacred forest

play ground in the courtyard

Karin has started a project to build a playground for the young and benches for the old, in each of the nine historical quarters in Koko. This is the first slide in one of them, if you have any simple play ground ideas or photos let me know!!

The environment club and me

a bun for each child

2nd July 2008

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Great read!
This has been a great blog. A fantastic account of a time spent in a country most from the west have never heard of. Best of luck for your future adventures.

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