Grace Of God Go I

This Thanksgiving I find myself humbled again because of the things that I am thankful for.

This year I am especially thankful for being able to get away from the trials and tribulations of Peace Corps life, if it is even only for just a few days or a half hour at the cyber cafe.

My wife as always holds the key to my heart and sanity (she loses the latter key all the time) and I am thankful for her.

I am thankful for my family at home who keep me going throughout this adventure that I set on a year and a half ago.

I am thankful for the friends that I have who keep America held together with hard work and determination.

I am thankful America, it is a place that everyone I meet wants to go to, even when I left it behind.

I am thankful for the work that I do and the people who begrudgingly support me in my attempts to develop Essau Senior Secondary School.

Next Year

This is going to be hard to believe but we have a LOT of vacation days to burn. We are in Bamako, Mali right now. Bamako is strangely familiar and very foreign at the same time. It's a sub-Saharan Francophone nation and we have never been here so we aren't quite sure how everything works. The country is beautiful and the people are friendly. With the exception of a bit of misunderstandings we are coasting along quite nicely. The museum here was really nice and we were able to see the opening of a new art exhibit. The artists were all there and they were getting interviewed and it was actually really neat. If all goes well we are going to spend a bit under 2 weeks here and will be home in time for Turkey day.