Monday, January 02, 2006 Whew, New Years day is done correctly here. That means I ate lunch twice yesterday. I share a concession with two other apartments and both of them fed me yesterday. First I had tasty pâte rouge and turkey... which was super delicious. I ate until I thought I would burst (out of politeness, not gluttony, really!). Then not more than 40 minutes later my other neighbors showed up with a fancy silver platter on which was a loaf of bread, a bottle of bisap and a huge plate of beans and meat. Oh man, it was too much. I couldn't say no for politeness sake, so I secretely hide most of it in my fridge where it awaits eating later today. Shh. Don't tell.

All in all it was a good day, except Marché Kilombo was all but deserted. Sad, but I did end up meeting the director of the cyber café that I frequent. So that may turn out to be good indeed.

Other updates, Ben called me to tell me that my laptop is in his posession and making its' way north today. That means I'll be able to make serious improvements to the site and blog quite a bit more frequently! Yay.

The Victory Way Christmas text is written, but unfortunately our Parakou computer exploded with sparks and smoke this weekend... and it housed all the pictures of the event... so it may be a little bit before I can recover those. I may post the text and add the pictures later. Not sure yet...

That's about it. This month should be pretty wild.