School started yesterday. I wasn’t as prepared as I really should have been, since I was at a nightclub with Boris the night before, so I didn’t really have the energy to prepare solid lessons. It hardly mattered since there were hardly any students there. They were supposed to be there at 7:30 for the […]
An outfit I purchased for when I exert myself. The phrase "faire du sport" gets used a lot to mean "exercise". And hey, is that a math teacher moustache? Jesus, I look like I belong in the Village People. The outfit was 3,800 CFA (I bargained down from more.. 5 or 6 k) and the […]
Coins. The flash wasn’t quite right on most of the photos I took of them. I ended up taking this picture with the camera upside down to get a decent exposure, and then rotated the picture. The smaller coins are the 5 CFA/10 CFA pieces. In terms of size, the 50 CFA coin is about […]
This is the image of my "compound", the walled complex of buildings I sleep in. It’s pretty small — maybe 30 feet across. This is a panorama taken from my porch. Full size is about 4.4 MB.
A photo of some teachers during our "taking of service" a couple days ago. J-C is wearing the brown suit jacket. In the background, the hills of Hauts-Plateaux.
Here’s another random photo, taken towards the end of training. Depicted are Allison, Jessica (who, though I took five pictures, is eating in all of them), and Peter. Naturally we noticed that the drinks could be sorted rainbetically [1]: The sodas are: Top Pamplemousse ("grapefruit", although it doesn’t taste much like grapefruit), Fanta, Top Grenadine […]
Testing something. In the meantime, here’s a picture of Vladimir.
Got my schedule (emploi de temps) today. No big ceremony. 16 hours of teaching, Monday, Thursday and Friday. Could be worse. More on that later. Today I would like to engage in a bit of Goal Three — sharing the culture here with you who are back home. The subject is ants (les fourmis). Mom […]