Hey guys, well this is my last night here in Africa. I am sad it is all comming to an end but at the same time i am ready for a little change of pace. so i would suggest to all of you that 2 weeks here is plenty of time to see and do alot of stuff remember Benin is a pretty small country. The last few days have been pretty low key just tying up loose ends and helping out at Songhai. today we had a celebration for our students here and to present a perform...

hey eveyone sorry i havent posted lately, we have been hanging out qround the Songahi centre the past few days so there was nothing much to write home about like water testing, health surveys and business ideqs for our filter reqlly exciting to me but may slip all of you of you in to a coma instantly :) today we headed to ganvie it is a village thqt was and still is built on stilts so every aspect of life is centered around the water which reminded me of bla...

hey everyone here is a link to the blog that is being posted by our class it is really cool to read and alot of the pictures from the trip so far are posted there. http://web.mac.com/water_dr/ and then got to the blog having fun we played soccer with the locals tonight it was a real hoot and i think they were really happy we were interested in the same things they were. a great common ground. love ya all jamie

hey everyone sorry it has been a few days we have been pretty busy. on wednesday we went to the drum market, yes garrett i got you a drum the same size as mine at home. that was crazy people shoving drums in your face left and right i did a good job at batering though chris! yesterday we drove to Abomay to visit a museum. on the way there i was convienced that i would not see tomorrow, they dont exactly have a great road structure nor do they stay on one side o...

hey everyone I am so glad to hear from all of you on the message board i makes me miss home less while i am here. today we learned how the water filters are made and worked with the team in charge of constructing them. then they let us help make a few it was really fun and dirty :) after the filter construction process we headed for the market. i didn't realize how much of an oasis the songhai center is because once we left the gates of the center we were surro...