These are difficult days for Burkina Faso.  In October, 2014, the president of 27 years was overthrown after two days of unrest.  In September, 2015, there was a coup d’etat that lasted a week.  In November, 2015, however, there was good news – a new president was elected peacefully, probably for the first time in […]

A week before Christmas I took part in some discourse analysis training in Florida.  But what exactly is discourse analysis? It’s kind of a hard thing to explain, since it talks about subconscious things that we do when we use language, so we don’t realize that we’re doing them.  However, if someone doesn’t follow these […]

Floating in the Dead Sea, where you can float without even trying, is amazing!!  Ok, so I’ve never done it, but the last weekend of November I got to float in Pink Lake, a really salty lake in Senegal (and if you look at the picture below, you’ll see that from some angles it really […]