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cogitations: Guest Post 2: Ya Soma - Our Visit to Ilana in Burkina Faso - and Bissighin
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Monday, May 31, 2010. Guest Post 2: Ya Soma - Our Visit to Ilana in Burkina Faso - and Bissighin. By Ken Cliffer, Ilana's Abba (father, Ilana Baba), with. Guest guest comments by Nicki Cliffer, Ilana's mother (Ilana Ma). S ours now; she belongs to us. S what people in Bissighin,. Where Ilana is serving, said when they met us, Ilana. S parents. Their appreciation and pride in what she. S doing to help them is clear and deep. S doing for us,. Ilana is clearly making a positive difference in their lives.
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cogitations: Ghana, Marriage Season, and Life Skills
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Monday, April 5, 2010. Ghana, Marriage Season, and Life Skills. Mommy and Abba with some of my family in the courtyard. With the CSPS staff who just presented my parents with a chicken and some traditional clothing. (from left, Aguiratou the midwife, me, Abba, Mommy, Parfait the head nurse, and Aguera the pharmacist). What can I say about the trip to Ghana? And they showed us where to get them. SO that was pretty much February. March could probably best be described as the month of marriages. We just...
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cogitations: May 2010
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Monday, May 31, 2010. Guest Post 2: Ya Soma - Our Visit to Ilana in Burkina Faso - and Bissighin. By Ken Cliffer, Ilana's Abba (father, Ilana Baba), with. Guest guest comments by Nicki Cliffer, Ilana's mother (Ilana Ma). S ours now; she belongs to us. S what people in Bissighin,. Where Ilana is serving, said when they met us, Ilana. S parents. Their appreciation and pride in what she. S doing to help them is clear and deep. S doing for us,. Ilana is clearly making a positive difference in their lives.
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cogitations: fete of the genies
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Saturday, November 13, 2010. Fete of the genies. Well, i'm not sure who still reads this.but if you do, thanks! The summer months were trying for reasons I unfortunately cannot fully disclose (as i also mentioned briefly in my last post). What (i think) i'm allowed to say is that all the volunteers from my area were removed briskly from our villages for security reasons, and then put back (YAY.) at the very end of August. There's one really interesting belief (superstition? Have their fete out in the fie...
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cogitations: August 2010
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010. That's what they said. I haven't really highlighted the hilarity of people's wit in this country, so I figured I'd take this lull in activity due to the rainy season (and other things to be explained in another forum) to do so. Actually, I still don't always understand the Burkinabé sense of humor, but the following are just situations that made me laugh:. It seems as if the first three scenarios are condom related for some reason*. Me: I want some eggs. Who gave that to you?
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cogitations: November 2010
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Saturday, November 13, 2010. Fete of the genies. Well, i'm not sure who still reads this.but if you do, thanks! The summer months were trying for reasons I unfortunately cannot fully disclose (as i also mentioned briefly in my last post). What (i think) i'm allowed to say is that all the volunteers from my area were removed briskly from our villages for security reasons, and then put back (YAY.) at the very end of August. There's one really interesting belief (superstition? Have their fete out in the fie...
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cogitations: Crazy Town
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Monday, January 18, 2010. Highlights from the last month follow:. Erik's blog has much cooler pictures of the parade, so check that out if you want to see more, but here are a couple just of the PCVs. Before the parade began, proudly displaying our banner, the only banner, in fact, which was different from the regulation banners provided for everyone else. I guess they figured we stuck out enough anyway, so they allowed us to carry our own special banner. The group making an enriched pooridge. It was gre...
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cogitations: Portrait of Ilana as an Artist
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Portrait of Ilana as an Artist. My favorite was when I overheard a group of women walking towards me from far away arguing over whether or not the "person" standing there was in the painting, or if it was Ilana. We measured and used sticks to encompass the area we wanted to cement on the walls. Once the base layers were on, I drew 7 inch by 7 inch grids, in pencil, on the walls, and 1 inch by 1 inch grids on top of my drawings. The hand-washing mural. Meant to show people to ...
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cogitations: Dogon Country and JMS
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Saturday, December 5, 2009. Dogon Country and JMS. On the left, you can see the houses built into the cliff by the dogon people. They're no longer inhabited, but you can climb up and walk around and through them. Voila a couple more photos from Mali, but please look at Erik's blog for professional style photos:. Climbing up the crack in between two huge boulders in order to get to the top of the escarpement. Photography by Oumar. View of Douru, a village at the top of the escarpement. It's so far away!
