What's different?

Besides the most common question we receive, "where the hell is Mali?", we are often asked if life is similar to home. Yes and no. While life here is ultimately the same as anywhere, people raising the next generation to raise the next generation and so forth, there are some things we do here regularly that we didn't do often in our lives a lot back home. Some examples:


We wear funny clothes.

We sleep under mosquito nets.

We feed small animals.

We hand wash clothes.

We wear plastic bags on our heads.

We hold babies.

We check out the mummifying cat.

Sam cooks.

Mark builds houses.

We watch policemen assist children to urinate in public.

We eat from communal bowls.

We read many, many books.

We open care packages!

We throw kids in the air.

We look at Mauritania.

We re-check the cat's mummification process.

So there you have a few things that we do in country that we did a limited bit of back home...