This week is spring break, and the plan was to travel to Niamey, Niger to visit Geoffrey and Christine, former Guinea PCVs. I left Ouaga on Sunday with Dr. Jen (former Guinea PCV now in Burkina), Kyan (former Guinea PCV now in Togo), and Katie (Kyan’s friend from the States, making her way to Tanzania to do a fellowship). It took about 6 hours by bus to get to the border. Kyan fought the crowd so she could be one of the first people on the bus and get a window seat. Control of a window is key on these rides: Burkinabe passengers refuse to open their windows even in the hot season, even when the half-conscious American next to them is begging for oxygen. At the border we had our passports stamped “leaving Burkina”
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