Flat Tire

March 6, 2013

A cultural experience… Yesterday, we were to travel back to Dakar with a missionary friend, but before we left we realized we had a flat tire. No problem. We put on the spare tire. ( There is not much humidity or salt on the roads here so there was no “Wisconsin factor” of rust […]

Exercising and learning how to count

March 3, 2013

Today I went with Andi, our fellow missionary friend to exercise with some of the local ladies. We exercised on the roof of one of their homes. We ran back and forth lifting our legs high, did squats, arm exercises with 1L water bottles that were filled, and other exercises on some mats on the […]

Traveling in Africa

March 2, 2013

I just heard a call to prayer… It reminded me that I am in a different place. Today, we traveled to another African city by way of a Sept Places ( It is a taxi with places for seven people in it so they call it: Seven Places). It was like a station wagon with […]

How the story of Benin gripped my heart

February 7, 2012

The Kingdom of Dahomey was settled by the French and was given independence on August 1, 1960. Mathiew Kerekou led an uprising that took power in the early 1970s. Kerekou was influenced by Marxism and started to implement it in the country. In 1989 when the Iron Curtain fell in the Soviet Union, Kerekou saw […]