It’s getting near the end of training. Tomorrow is the last day of real training, we swear in next Friday at the ambassador’s house in Cotonou, and we have to be at post by Monday night. And just when I had trained almost all of the children in my neigborhood to not yell racial slurs when I walked by…
We have tomorrow afternoon off so we can attend the fetes for the end of Ramadan. Even cooler, maybe now the imams at the mosque near my house will stop chanting over a loudspeaker 24 hours a day.
Speaking of religion, on Saturday we’re going to the huge voodoo temple in Ouidah. I wonder how I’m going to offend Beninese religious leaders this time. Ou bien.
Watch your p’s and q’s. You don’t need to see Michael pincushion dolls selling on the streets of Benin.