Saturday, June 16, 2007 So much awesomeness is going on I can't even describe.

Our bike trip rocked so hard it was amazing. Cheers to the organizers. It was seriously the best organized PC event ever. We biked just under 200k over 4 days and taught anti-AIDS classes to 5 groups (young/old women, young/old men, children) to 11 villages. In totaly we passed on information to more than 2,200 individiuals. It was tons of fun, and gave me a new perspective on the Borgou. Before I thought my region was pretty ugly... no hills, no mountains... not really much of anything to look at. Turns out though that if you go a little en brousse there actually are quite pretty hilly-mountain type things.

Then, to top of the awesomness of the bike ride... we finally got to tour the local brewery! There are 3 offices to SOBEBRA (the main distributer of beverages in Benin). One in Cotonou, one in Parakou, and one in Possotome (which specializes in mineral water and sodas in plastic bottles). The Parakou brewery was awesome. We got to see the entire process, from raw material to finished beer. The bottle washer, filler and labeler was by far the most exciting.

2 weeks left in Parakou.