Dropped Sukie off at 7am at the International School. Everyone was very welcoming. Her class has 8 other kids. Four girls, four boys. She is the only American! Four of the kids are anglophone Africans, one boy from Holland, one girl from Poland, and two she isn’t sure. Teacher is from Canada. She says it was a good first day… the girls told her the boys were a little… you know… crazy. So that went pretty well. She came home and Salimata had made benga (rice and bean dish) and she liked it. For dinner spaghetti with vegetable sauce. She watched Nancy Drew again, and now is doing homework.

I had a good meeting at INSS with my colleagues Alain Sissao and Felix Compaore. The FAVL team working with me on the project to promote reading amongst youth arrived. We are going to meet and go over the program the next two days. I am looking forward to this project getting underway. It will be really interesting to see how things develop.