The delicate line between mockery and celebration

A valuable lesson from West Africa: Sometimes outfits speak louder than words.

Undertaken in school yards

• Watched sheep give birth (to another sheep.)
• Took bucket bath.
• Asked goats to leave the library.
• Nursed football wounds.
• Answered someone's cell phone for them during mass prayer.
• Fought over chicken scraps with another volunteer.
• Burned books (due to termite infestation.)
• Avoided marriage proposal.
• Considered marriage proposal.
• Woke caretaker from his nap (in a wheelbarrow.)
• Startled donkies using pit latrinte (for wrong purpose.)
• Explained the use of Beanie Baby Collector's Guide and Bowling for Boys found in box of donated books.
• Found common ground with a man who's religious beliefs prevent him from shaking my hand.
• Danced with barren women with a gourd on my head.
• Marked papers by headlamp.
• Learned that Jawoh adds the "h" to his name "according to his feeling" and that's how it appears on his passport.