One of the side benefits to spending several days with Volunteers au village was that it gave the stagiares the opportunity not only to learn first hand how to get around on the bush taxi system, but it also gave us an immediate opportunity to use what we learned. Although the Peace Corps had driven [...]
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Getting Back to Pagala
Posted in Peace Corps, West Africa, bush taxi, tagged Peace Corps Volunteer, Togo, Village Life, West Africa on January 3, 2007 | Comments Off
Abouma Lamalá
Posted in Togo, Village Life, West Africa, tagged Peace Corps Volunteer, Togo, Village Life, West Africa on January 2, 2007 | Comments Off
One of Pam’s favorite village children in Bitchabé was Abouma Lamalá. He was about five years old and had a lot of energy. One day she asked one of the people who spoke French how to say to him, “you’re acting silly” in Bassar. This got translated into Bassar into something like [...]




