Too Much Sweating Going on…

Well, I have been surviving my days here in Benin. I am beginning to like to a lot! I go on strolls with my little friend every once in awhile…she is two and I love her! People ask me if she is my daughter…I say yea, of course!!! Haha Just a little joke we have going here! I am eating lots and lots, but sometimes I just cant find to the appetite…just so dang hot hot hot! I actually was sick with a bacteria for about 2 weeks, but I took some GOOD medicine and I was fine within three days! Christmas is just around the corner and I have my decorations up in the house…battery operated lights that flash on and off, a Santa and Snowman stocking, candy canes and flameless snowman candles…thanks to the family I can see Christmas even though it’s so bloody hot here! I cant stress it enough! But, you know what, I can get my hair done for cheap here and it looks bomb!!!! (not to be like yea my hair looks good--just saying the truth) haha Oh I often go for walks and there tends to be bushes everywhere so you have to be careful because a chicken, goat, lizard or even a COW will come running out….no lions, tigers, or elephants in my part of the country…just gotta watch out for those chickens…we will never run out of eggs here…my main source of protein besides eating the chicken or buying peanut butter in Cotonou or Porto-Novo! These months are really flying by…my kids just completed the first round of exams…now I have to grade them!! Ugh and a half! Spending hours and hours…they just don’t appreciate me enough! Haha Was going to go on safari but plans changed…maybe another time! I really wanna go riding around looking at lions, elephants, giraffes and such…even though I might pee my pants a few times…yikes…life is full of what if’s! Thanks for the packages I have been getting….love them! It’s a great day when packages get to Cotonou and then into my hands….it’s a struggle, but so worth it! <3 you family and friends……mwah