What a day

For starters, I drove home from church. That means a manual transmission 4x4 pick-up truck on the main streets of one of the biggest cities in west Africa. Kinda wild. Fortunately Sundays are the lightest traffic days, which is why we decided it would be good practice.

To make it more interesting, we didn't go straight home. We dropped off a friend who wanted to visit some relatives of her village "family." And we decided to go and introduce ourselves. This resulted in us spending the entire morning and afternoon with them.

So I got a really good dose of local life today. It was fun! Also somewhat tiring, and it made me realize that I really need to work on understand French with an African accent.