My Home Sweet Home

Post visit was a welcome break from the monotony I so despise. Post visit was a chance for all volunteers to spend two weeks at their future home for the next two years. It was so great for me because it let me know that in a month I won’t be in a classroom with the comfort of other Americans or patient professors who understand my botched French but that I will actually be doing what I imagined when I imagined my life in Benin. My village of 40,000 people is about two hours away from the largest cities North (Djougo) or South (Savalou). It has a good number of boutiques where I can find cold drinks and good cookies. There is also a restaurant where I can find French fries, yay! I will be living in a concrete house with a porch right across the street from the Mayor’s office and I will be working at the health center which is oddly placed right next to the hospital. My home has electricity but no running water, but my neighbor’s children have agreed to do that for me. I will try.

Now I get to start the fun stuff, now I get to start tech training and learn how to do the job I can here to do! SO far its been great, learning how to track my projects and measure their effectiveness. I will be learning how to do baby weighing's and track the growth of children. I'll learn how to make nutritive porridge to increase weight and health, and a bunch of other things