This morning as I went for a walk along the banks of the Niger River here in Bamako I said some of my final “A ni ches” (hello in Bambara) to the people of Mali I passed. My flight to Algeria is tonight (actually at 1:25am on Friday morning…but I am going to the airport at…
Today as I was walking over the “Old Bridge” in Bamako I told to my new friend, Samatha from Seattle, “I don’t know how I am going to be able to tell people back home about the things I see here.” Everything here is so raw….humanity at its purest and most basic. They say that…
Hakuna Matata…they actually do say that here in Mali, even though the phrase is Swahili. I am not quite at the “No Worries” stage :)….but working on it each day! So I write this now from a little hotel called The Sleeping Camel in Bamako, Mali. My room is absolutely bare minimum in its decore and furnishing….but…
