Well I had written a bunch of posts but my flashdrive doesn't exactly get along with this computer so better luck tomorrow. These French keyboards are such a pain. It literally took me about 2 minutes to write all that I've written so far. That's because the "a", "w", and "m" letters are out of place, just to name a few.
Hopefully new posts detailing life in Gbatopé shall be up soon. As for what I can say now, things are still going well. We found out where our posts are and I will be spending the next 2 years in the village of Nampoch. A village of about 2,500, Nampoch is locate in the northern part of the country. If you look at this map you will see it is highlighted just north of Guerin-Kouka:
http://www.swarpa.net/~danforth/togo/graphics/togomap.gif
The settings are pretty rural as I'm 50 km away from a paved road. Having said that, most of the roads in Togo are not paved. I'm pretty psyched and fairly nervous about the natural resource management work I will be doing there. We haven't recieved detailed post descriptions yet so I don't know too much more other than a GEE volunteer will be only 9km away which is pretty sick. The local language is Komkomba so I have that to learn as well as French. Two weeks from now we head to our posts for post visit so it's about to get real. I will let you know how that goes.
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hey there daniel!
ReplyDeletei love that you are able to keep a blog! and have truly enjoyed your entries thus far. really quite amazing you do have access to a computer and a cell phone, i am sure even more surreal for you amongst the juxtaposition of 3rd world africa and modern technology.
sounds like you are off to a fabulous start, but that doesn't surprise me one bit. have to say your carrying the water on the head story did give me a chuckle out loud. wonderful to have these stories and your descriptions of the things around you that make you feel not quite so far away. hang in there, bud, and keep the posts coming!
love,
syd