June 2012 Blog Posts (3)

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I am saying "a la prochaine" to Benin

As much as I love the Beninoir guys I worked with, it was a struggle to not get frustrated certain days working with them. There is no use explaining the various reasons why, because I have already stewed over it on those days at the risk of bitterness. But knowing how poorly I can bear with my…

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Added by Devin Weaver on June 18, 2012 at 3:08am — No Comments

Reflections

My first year (and hopefully not the only year) in Cote d'Ivoire is coming near it's end as I've been here for ten months now. So I felt like it was time for one of those long "so what have I learned" type blogs.

So what have I learned? So many things, but for one: I am WEAK. I never expected that. I'm not sure what I expected, maybe something closer to some sort of mountain-top missionary experience and to always be happy and everything would be so easy. I tried not to have…

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Added by Tricia Trout on June 12, 2012 at 3:10am — No Comments

Normal

So it's been a little awhile and I'm not sure what to write. Things just continue as normal. And when I say normal, I mean normal. Tens months in, I don't know what to write because most stuff doesn't stand out in my mind anymore.



As much as the daily or weekly routine gets normal there are certain things that make me think, "I'm definitely not in the States anymore."



Such as being at church and hearing the guy directing the service ask the Senoufo choir to sing something…

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Added by Tricia Trout on June 1, 2012 at 11:11am — 1 Comment

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