Welcome to Togo, Dave!
Birthday package from mom
4th of July Smores-making over the gas stove (we were too tired to light the charcoal and do it the real way)
a very hot 4th of July 2009 (Dave's first day in my village)
Birthday pancakes on July 5th
Kids playing soccer in my compound with a very attentive audience under the gazeebo shade
Dave eating comme at my market
Cooking at home
Dave helping out at baby-weighing
a view from my village
cute kids on the way home from the dispensaire after a rainstorm
my "neighborhood"
Reading on my front porch
me & Dave, credit to my little host brother's amateur photography skills
Solim and Fofo (my little host family siblings) giving Sudoku a shot
shot from my back window (I just liked this picture)
Dave doing dishes
Rainy days (it rained the first solid week Dave was here - This is why we call it rainy season)
bush taxi full of Peace Corps volunteer yovos on the way north to Kara
Fufu for lunch in Kara 
Danielle, her boyfriend Nate, and Dave on the search for our hotel
dinner with real salad!
On the way to Danielle's friend's home village in Kara region where we were invited for lunch
Danielle's friend's family
We met up with some other local volunteers in Kara
>Evala- the coming of age ceremony for young Kabiye boys. The events were packed. In this last picture if you look closely, you can see the man in the grey suit at the desk; that's Togo's current president, Faure Gnassingbe
Soccer game in Emily's village
Dave, Emily, Fenway
Togolese doing laundry in the river
Dave with Fenway & Wrigley (Emily's pets)
the whole ensemble
Dave on a moto on the way to my village
Bike ride up to Elavagnon (Danielle's village)
Our garden is growing!
Lunch chez Danielle; courtesy of Nate, we had enchiladas with real cheese from America
Nap time on the cool cement floor
Look familiar? (refer to pictures from Dad's visit) My little host brother later asked me why American men don't like wearing shirts.
Making peanut butter
Eating coconut after I finally got it open
Dave's new Togolese outfits
This is how I get water during rainy season 
The last step of peanut butter-making: grinding the peanuts into butter at the mill
My youngest host brother, Fofo, volunteered to fix my latrine door which was falling off because the nail had rusted out. It was really cute and I had to sneak a picture.
The cute kids in my compound (notice Solim dancing by herself in the background)
Dave's goodbye pictures with my host family (in the last picture though, I don't know the kid on the far right; he was just a neighbor kid who decided to jump in last minute)These last pictures are just of Green Turtle Lodge in Ghana, which is an isolated "resort" by the ocean where we spent time right before Dave went back to the States.
