Here are a few fun things from this week. We’ve been getting together with Eric Rands every weekend to have dinner together, then we watch the French version of The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s free on YouTube, staring Gerard Depardieu. It’s divided into 4 episodes. You will want to watch it. There are English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnAWw7MAN3U
This week I celebrated 300 days of solid French study! I spend up to an hour every day studying French and it’s sure paying off.
Here’s an interesting billboard about Covid. The update here: our numbers are still low. There have been 535 reported Covid deaths in Mali. We are still careful every day and try hard to keep our masks on. The general feeling here is that Malians are immune to Covid. Cote d’Ivoire is even lower with 363 reported deaths so far. The curious thing is that numbers in Senegal, to the west of us, have been rising, with 1,625 deaths reported to date. South Africa is just under 78,000. And the USA has now surpassed 600,000 deaths.
As we’ve moved into the rainy season, crops are growing and the early corn is starting to show up on the streets for sale. This field corn is grilled over a fire and eaten off the cob.
A furniture delivery!
A load of fire wood.
We stopped here to put air in our tires.
This is the restaurant in the bottom of our apartment building. I don’t want to forget the happy memories we’ve had there with friends.
This week our backyard neighbors put a new roof on part of their home.
My neighbor friends by the church, taking a break from their hopscotch to say hello.
Here’s another good memory I want to capture. This is in our apartment. We have a foot faucet, for washing feet and for filling buckets. I use this every day when we come in to wash my feet and shoes.
Our Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan East and Bamako, Mali Mission 