Grace-Victoire.

Now that Grace is walking, talking (okay, maybe mumbling random sounds) and has the curiosity of any 2-year old, she always walks over to my porch to see what I'm up to. So adorable! And she has a name for me. She can't call me Michael so she calls me something that resembles Michael but sounds more like "Tee-tah." I'm cool with that! She's growing up to be quite the personality. I can already see, she'll probably be the comedian of her class.

Grace doing some kind of crazy dance thing. Silly kids!

Trying to play telephone with my cell phone. "Oui, allo? C'est qui?"

You can see Madame Constance (her mom) in the background.

Hahaha, look at her laugh!

Pelagie and Grace with a pile of nere fruit.

Colette comes to visit me at my site!

After almost two years of talking about it, Colette finally comes to visit me at my site! I'll let the pictures tell the story, but it was a great time showing Colette my neck of the woods in Burkina Faso. Talk about coming full circle!

Baltazar making the traditional African tea. Talk about a 12:00pm-3:00pm 'repos' ritual. Three glasses of tea and endless amounts of conversation! Note Hercules always by my side...awww...

At the market chez Valerie, where I buy most of my produce.

Why do the Burkinabè get so awkward the moment you whip out a camera? Note the woman to the right of this picture...

A view of the main road at my site.

With Boureima. I buy most of my things at his shop -- pasta noodles, mayonnaise, matches, candles, everything! I probably spent most of my money here.

Oranges! Although oranges here aren't necessarily orange as they are green...

Typical transport situation in Burkina Faso. This is the bus I usually take for long-distance travels. We're at a stop, and normally many women come to the side of the bus to sell all sorts of goodies!

Pelagie and Grace!

If you look back to a past blog entry I had where I visited Colette's site, you'll see that she too also has a similar set-up with the stove on the bottom and the Afrique wall decoration on the wall. Great minds think alike!