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Just to keep everyone posted....

 

on August 1 I will be leaving my lovley home in Godomey, Benin...taking a flight to Brussels...spending the night in Brussels and then continuing home - arriving in Chicago on August 3!!!   I will be spending a little more than a week at home before moving accross the country to start graduat school (on August 13) at Yale School of Forestry ( www.yale.edu/environment).  My new address will be: 

 

84 edwards st. #1

new haven, ct 06511

 

and I assume I will aquire a US phone number somewhere along the way....

 

 

Benin has been good the last month.  It is now full rainy season, thus it is considerably cooler and often pouring rain.  I returned from the North three weeks ago and madly put together a presentation on my research for the First National Protected Areas Day.   I've been in Cotonou since, taking care of final reports and logistic type things.   I am also editing the English part of the Protected Areas website...so that should be available soon.... Yesterday was a highlight.  Jennifer and I made a fourth of July meal. In the evening Prof Sinsin (my advisor) came over for his own private hamburger....first time I have cooked for my professor!   Upcoming are trips to the North and the East.....I am trying to scout yoruba-speaking sites in case I decide to return next summer to do my Master's Thesis in Yorubaland (I will be studying Yoruba at Yale). 

 

Ok.  Keep in Touch. 

Natalie