The other advantage of rainy season that I negelcted to mention in my last blog is that once your field is sufficiently weeded and planted, there's not much else to do with everyone else out in the field, so you can take off with some fellow PCVs and ship out to Dogon Country. See the unique, goofy-looking houses! The villages carved out of the side of the cliffs! Walk the grueling hikes up and down mountains, through sorghum fields, and in and out of towns where even your obscure Malian language or basic French skills will get you next to nowhere! Sleep on top of mud houses under the stars, until the stars become obscured by clouds and the rain pelts you from every possible angle! Travel two hours through the midday heat only to find that the water pump at the end of the road is broken! Enjoy hiking rocky terrain and jagged cliff edges that would never be legal in the US without a telephone book-sized liability form!
Or just check out the pictures of me doing it...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29040473@N02/
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