Home Sweet Home

It's finally happened...I'm in the capital and I MISS BOUBON!!
Granted, I am so thankful for our time here because it's usually the only time we get nutritious food and a full night of rest. But if I could just take the food and the rest with me, I don't know if I'd ever leave the village! (Provided that the Phillips and Saleeby's would constantly visit us--lol!) :)

This week I got to the point where I finally loved and appreciated a bucket bath and our filtered water. Some of you might remember how at first I said the filtered water tasted like sulfur...Now, I don't even need a flavor packet to chug a bottle! (Will Burnham, I hope you're reading this because I am drinking several bottles of water a day now without any complaints! Be proud!)

The language is still a huge struggle for me, but I'm catching on to more words and phrases. I can now tell when I'm about to be married off to the nearest young man and I can successfully say in Zarma "I did not come to look for a fiance in Niger." ("Ay mana kaa arwasu ceeciyan Nizer laabu.")

I'm finding that there's more and more people to love every day. Just the other day we met a "new" group of women (I say "new" because we had met them once before when the LHBC team was here, but we hadn't seen them since and didn't remember most of them...) and already, there were some precious people that I'm excited to go back and visit!



You know, this place has a habit of throwing you for a loop, turning your world upside down and inside out, and just when you feel like you can't stand it anymore, you discover that it's buried itself deep down inside your heart--and you wouldn't have it any other way! :)