July 16th...

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Last night I forgot to mention that with Buba yesterday, we also went to the fetich market. Very interesting and way way way more impressive than the similar market in Morocco.

Tons of dead rotting bats, porcupines, goats, crocodiles, even rats. It was such a spectacle...a dark spectacle, but I had never seen this before. And the market was huge. Spread out over blocks and blocks, just in between kids cloths and hardwares. I was to shy to take photos that time, but I guess I will have to go back there sometimes to get at least one shot.

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This morning I spent a couple of hours on internet, catching up at last. Lots of emails and messages.

I am not sure as to what my plan is in Mali yet, I just know I need to find some place to volunteer if I don't want to go crazy or depressed. And so I looked online...

It is incredible that it is so difficult to find an organization to volunteer when we are in one of the poorest countries in the world. Illogical.

I even asked the sisters at the mission for suggestions. The only thing the head sister told me was that she knew someone at the Toyota dealership who might need help with marketing. So much for the social impact.

For lunch, Petit Dogon walked me to another place. Same kind of place and food, but perhaps way more rats...and this time during day time.

The afternoon went by sort of quickly. I was tired, slept a bit and read.

For dinner, I had promised Dogon I would treat him to some dibi (roasted lamb like in Senegal), so we went there. Very interesting experience. In a dark alley, a shack on the side of the alley was all black of smoke. In it, this small lamb roasting, with a little TV screen in the corner which a bunch of people were squatting down on the curb and watching. We passed order and went across the street to wait and sit down. When the food was ready, they brought it over. And we ate on the aide of the extremely polluted road, seeing what we were eating thanks to Dogon's cell phone flash light...

That dibi was definitely not as good as the ones we ate in Dakar...