this preying mantis was IN my bathroom. staring down at me.
preying mantis on the wall in the "hall" between my room and the bathroom. you better believe i screamed a little when i had to walk past it. look at it's eyes. it weirds me out to think that these guys are so big and watch me and whatnot. and i believe they know how to change color.
this is the picture of me with a big pineapple that i bought right before Angelina and I got caught in the big rainstorm. i guess this picture should go with the post shown down below a few entries...but i am too lazy and don't have time to figure it out.
a one legged grasshopper(?) got into my kitchen and decided to hang out on my dish drying rack.
This guy was found chillin' in the tub of laundry i had soaking in the bathroom. he was actually kinda cute. but that's not my hand holding him. no siree. that would be christopher. and FANOU told me that most bugs in Africa are not harmless. in fact, i should pretty much just worry about the mosquitoes.
this is a handful of the volunteers in my region. here we have a hippee, me/Dorothy of Wizard of OZ, i have no idea, a Beninese farmer, and a bicyclist.
halloween bonfire. we lit up the candy wrappers and the boxes they were sent in. i haven't seen a bonfire in ages!
the snails here are HUGE! this one wasn't even THAT big.
but still pretty darn big. i think my hand was a good 6 inches or so away. i didn't want to go too close.
me pretending to paddle along in the lake. i almost fell on my face getting off the boat. i slipped and stubbed my toe and i was worried it was going to get infected. but no blood, no worries!
a canoe carved out of one piece of wood. i tried to capture some of the lake too...oh well, still looks kinda cool though, no?
a view of the lake.
the beach of Possotome.
fisherman on the lake. it's not deep at all. i could probably walk out there.
me in front of the natural spring thing. the water that comes out is nice and warm! this is also the city where they bottle spring water.
me and some goats in Possotome.______________________________________
Dakar trip...i mean medevac
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found this at the supermarche and thought it was creepy. Polly Pockets that you have to assemble yourself. also, as i pulled out my camera to take this, is when i realized that i have a broken camera screen. so it's back to the old fashioned way and using the view finder...but the following pictures are nice, no?
eatin some n'ice cream ice cream. OMG, soooooooooooo good. bubble gum and vanilla.
this is the presidential palace.
these stairs reminded me of the time i was in Cuzco and we had to hike up the un-godly amount of stairs to watch the festival thingy. but these weren't bad...i was just tired of walking. oh, and i guess there are goats everywhere here too.
we came across this writing on the wall on our walk along the coast of Dakar. It was on the road under the presidential palace...it was a gorgeous walk...
a boatful of yovos. oops. i feel bad for writing that. but not really because tourists are annoying and i feel that they were indeed yovos. any-yovo, i haven't seen this many white people together in one place in a REALLY long time...
this was our boat, the SS Beer!
a really pretty "street" we walked down as we wandered around the island.
this is me in front of the history museum. i think it used to be fort or a castle or something...i dunno caue we didn't go in. but i thought it was cool that it had a draw bridge and a moat! ****this one is for Cole and Cade, who love castles (they still do, right??)****
Baobab tree lined hike up to the top of Gore Island
this is a mural on a wall. somehow, all the colors all over the island were bold and beautiful...
this is Gore Island. took a trip out there today..
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