Friday, February 26, 2010

Friday February 26, 2010

Just a very short blog because not an awful lot to say - but I am going to Bobo-Dioulasso this week-end and will let you know how that went on Monday.

It seems that a few things are progressing in St-Sauveur - I think I might have sold my car and my house in the last week.- nothing signed yet but offers on both so I will keep my fingers crossed.

Here however nothing is progressing - work is at a standstill and I do not put much hope that anybody will be able to help this particular organization. I hope to be able to meet with my Program Manager next week and get affected to another mandate. I have been trying to meet with him for the past 2 weeks but his father passed away so I have to be patient. I think I am getting rather good at being patient because not much esle to do.

The weather is getting hotter every day and we found a quaint little maquis were we go for our daily beer and converstion with some locals - a doctor, a journalist and an engineer. I would not venture eating there but the beer is nice and cold (but the flies are really at home there too). The doctor is a real card - loves to talk and you have a hard time getting anything in to the converstion - he likes the monologue type of conversation but he is nice.

Not being able to go out at night is a real pain however - I am going to have to figure something out soon because this is home for me.




That's all folks - not much to say. Hopefully next blog will be a bit more entertainning with my visit at Bobo.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

A few odds and ends

As I was going through my pictures I remembered that there are some that I did not share with you when I could not download my pictures into the computer.

The night of Feb 12th we went to the Centre Culturel Francais and we saw some amazing artwork - recycled materials gave this

and there were these gigantic puppets where the puppeter stands at the base of the puppet with two sticks in his hands to activate the arms.



During an evening at the "Jardin de l'AmitiƩ" we were entertained by clowns on stilts (they like big)


And there is my work and my office space



And lately it has been so hot that this is what I long



Work is pretty slow today - lack of electricity for a couple of hours and lack of work gave me a chance to write this blog - can you tell I am bored ???