Dad,

I will have a chance periodically to call home and have you call back (its much more expensive to have me call the US) so if you want to, you can set up an at&t one country only account. This is the cheapest rates. I think it comes out to 40 cents a minute. Just look into it and let me know if you decide to do it. I don't want to really call if you don't have a plan. I think just regular phone cards would work too if the plan costs $.

Anyway, so guess what? I guess all I can do is describe my view out of the second story window of the Peace Corps office right now. There is a woman walking across the street with a purple shirt and bright yellow/orange patterned saraong on making her way across the dirt-everywhere street and towards a small market. They are selling fruits and vegetables; lots of tomatos and pineapple and HUGE avacados. The women can hold bowls on their heads to carry all of these things...probably the same diameter of a tire, and all the goods are carefully piled high. The purple shirted woman is now carrying one of these full of pineapples away from the market and out of my view. The buildings are all low to the ground with rusted tin roofs, clothes drying on the line outside right on the street. And this is the largest city in Benin, and we are 'downtown' although there really is no city center.

It's wild. I'll write more when I get a chance. I'll have internet access of some sort for the next three months. I'll be in Azove (along the Togo border) with the 17 business people. There are 115 PCVs in Benin right now and 38 people in our whole group. The staff adn everyone we've met so far have been absolutely amazing.

Hope y'all are doing well. Love you, Sara