INTERMISSION

Dear readers.

As you probably have noticed, I’ve been very quiet here lately. First, it was because I had to do the last transect walks in Gourcy, three villages in three days, and that simply didn’t give any time to write. Then, once we were back in Ouaga, I had to log photographs and transcribe notes and make rudimentary maps. And finally, when that was all done, I started writing. But, you know, I am the meticulous kind, and I wanted to get a complete overview of what I was going to write, which photographs I was going to illustrate the posts with and in which order I was going to put them in. Quite a mission, I must admit. Well, when I was almost done, the internet at Chez Tess crashed. Actually, the internet in the entire city seemed to crash.. Nothing worked. And then, I had to get out into the field again, this time to Kaya.

So now, I’m sitting here, back in Ouaga with working internet again, with a whole bunch of posts, basically from November 15th and on. Seventeen pages worth of text, and countless edited photographs.

I want to put it all up, and fast, to get back on track. But that means that for those of you who strive for reading everything, and especially those of you who subscribe, will have a nightmarishly long list of new posts to wade through. I apologize for that, and hope that that won’t make you give up on this little blog of mine completely.

I’ll put things up in the order I have written them, with the date of writing in parenthesis in the title to hopefully minimize timeline confusion.

Good luck, and enjoy!