Blind pitch, Ouagadougou. 13 Sep, Thu

Some days are known to stick in your memory, or at least a good portion of them. Many of the times in Burkina Faso will be remembered, maybe not in a specific order, but to the extent of ‘hey, what about the day you had to take a poo in a sample container,’ or like [...]

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Bypass the job, Ouagadougou. 12 Sep, Wed

Something clicked, as I was getting up at 0730. I only had a couple of days left in Burkina Faso, and, as you have probably read, I have not actually done much in terms of real giving to the community in physical improvements. With my getting Malaria, I think Donat and Miriam had played it [...]

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Criminal heat, Ouagadougou, Ouahgouya. 11 Sep, Tue

Really, 5 1/2 hours of sleep does go quickly when you surprise even yourself in going to sleep. To let you know about the extent of people sleeping in this place: Yvonne had already taken a shower and had woken us up on her way back from the shower, as well as this, her sister [...]

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Community, Ouagadougou. 10 Sep, Mon

So, today was a day of Fidel action. not only this, but Francious came along, as did the still sick Donat. Several days ago, Patrick and i had passed on a list of flora we would like to have collected from around Francious’ place. I think he was able to get all of the essentials. [...]

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Lying down to Moore, Ouagadougou. 9 Sep, Sun

The attempts at trying to tell Canazui the days events seemed to fill a good part of the morning, as well as some intense working sessions clearing and fixing things in the yard and maisonette, but we had things to take care of. He seemed excited over the story I told him and was impressed [...]

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Burning, the Garden of Eden, Ouagadougou. 8 Sep, Sat

For majority of the day, Canazui and I were once again left predominantly alone. The last time that I had spoken to Miriam had been several days ago, at least, and it was today, with Donat’s brief visit, that I was to discover Miriam’s last few days would not be involving Reciproka, and it was [...]

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The big lands, Ouagadougou. 7 Sep, Fri

For a few hours in the morning both Fidel and an uncle of Patrick’s was visiting Reciproka briefly. This brief visit was to see what the extent of flora was, that was gathered the previous day with Patrick, but then to allow for Patrick’s other uncle to see that he may need to get a [...]

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Blind date, Ouagadougou. 6 Sep, Thu

Patrick came around early and, after Donat was able to contact a guy at a research botany, Patrick and I went about heading to the other side of the city. The guy here was able to give us examples of most of the plants, not only their scientific names, but also chopping a portion of [...]

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NOTE:

Now, there had been a degree of laziness, on my part, in regards to the various entries for the blog. It is now after Christmas (27 December) and I was at first in a kind of set situation, that is, entries had been recorded in my little black journal and I was too busy enjoying [...]

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Hate Ouaga 2000, Ouagadougou. 5 Sep, Wed

With Fidel coming around for the next couple of days from 0830 to 1130, the anticipation was that I was going to get down and dirty with the clay batter mix, well so I thought. When Fidel arrived, we had to wait for Donat for an hour. When Donat came with the statement of how [...]

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