Blogs from Centre, Burkina Faso, Africa - page 6

some of you might know that I lived in burkina the first year of my life; and that my parents lived there for a good number of years. few might know the faces or the names, not even thorugh pictures. in burkina I stayed all the time with "my family", so this what is to say about it is just for my family. the pictures though Ill upload here cause its easier... read more

As of today, I have 26 days left to this placement in Burkina Faso. Oh my gosh!!! Just writing this freaks me out totally! I am sad of going back for sure.. and I guess it will hit me even more once I start packing of selling my things. For now.. I'm actually excited to go back to Canada and to my fresh cool May weather. I am not jockeing guys, it is HOT!!! Just to give you an idea... I have a thermomether in my living room and it is up to 38 degrees in the house, that means.. in the shade.. The weather network says it's 42 degrees in Ouagadougou but under the sun.... it for sure is more than that. Another WUSC volunteer told me he has a thermometer outside his house, ... read more

As February is getting to an end, the winds started blowing!! I thought the winds were on when Dee was here, but I was surely mistaken. Tornadoes of dust form sometimes in the middle of the street and the wind blows so hard that it makes my moped move sometimes. What is weird though, is that it only blows during the day and at night, it's calm. I suspect the sun and the heat have something to do with that. I'm sure my dear Stacey would have some weather scientific reason for this! ahah At least the nights are still cool for now, but the heat will come and the sweat will be pouring out of the pores! I dont want this to happen, at all even. The weather was so nice this past little while. ... read more

Shawn and I spent our Christmas in Burkina Faso - We gave up our hopes of going to Timbuktu because of time constraints and settled on a place with an equally exotic sounding name. Ouagadougou (pronounced Wagga-doogoo) was our new Christmas Destination. We noticed the difference as soon as we crossed the border. The French speaking immigration man joked with us as he chain smoked cigarettes. An empty shot glass sat beside him on his desk - we attributed his friendliness to the beverage. We later found out the glass was for incredibly strong green tea from China made by adding a cup of sugar and mixing continuously for three minutes. You will frequently see a couple of men sitting in the street nursing a teapot that sits on hot charcoal. You drink the tea ... read more

So, yeah I have bad news. I hurt myself the other day. To make the story short, I was putting up Christmas lights on top of the wall surrounding my yard. This wall has little peaks on top of it, meant to hurt any thiefs. The chair I was on broke and thus while I fell, those peaks totally disfigured 2 fingers. It's only on the floor that I realized I was hurt when I noticed the blood pissing from my hand. I put really thigh bandages around my hand and Djeneba drove me to the clinic I work at. It wasnt pretty. They did more than 10 stiches on my hand with the only needle they had available, a round maternity needle, when the nurse would have wished he had triangular needles. I got lucky ... read more