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I was so rude of me to leave you all hanging!
Well Cam made it back and I made it to Paris and then toted all that junk all across beautiful sunny Paris to my friend Pierre's house. Paris was really nice although I was pining to get to Guinea.
I made it to Guinea and had a pretty quiet month during Ramadan. Ramadan is a muslim holy month where every muslim eats before 5am and then fasts the entire day until 7 or 8 pm. They don't even drink water, saying that it is not good to drink water on an empty stomach. Needless to say people try not to do too much during that month and the whole country acts like they've been tranquilized.
Then we went to Senegal to pursue Manimou and Rosaline's medical exam and visa. This was of course done only after extensive discourse with the American Embassy there to make sure we were doing everything right. After 50 hours in a dilapitated taxi we arrived in dakar, ill and paid for two nights in a downtown hotel. $100 bucks! that is crazy in West Africa were many people earn less than $2 dollars a day! Everything took much longer than planned and we rented a small room on the 5th floor of an apartment building in a neaighborhood called Grande Yoff. That is where all the Guineans live.
We finished the medical exam with out a problem and then took rosaline to the dentist to get her cavity dealt with... Two cavities and one turned out to be a root canal! ouch!
I had to return to Conakry, Guinea's capital city by myself and run all over conakry preparing to return to the United States. I was impressed with how well I can navigate that insane city! I went to visit his family and little Katy cried when she realized that I was saying the next time I would see her she would be so much bigger!
Then back to Paris where I ate and bought lots of books. And then on to the states where I ate a hamburger! I really think that they leave out the flavor in Guinea! Don't get me wrong I love rice and sauce now-a-days, I am a real trooper.
Manimou got the visa last tuesday and that was very exciting and hopefully he will be here soon.
Another couple of months I think.
I am in Crested Butte, Colorado but plan on going back to Seattle in a month and a half to be closer to the fam.
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