my short trip to burkina faso is coming to an end. tonight we're flying to dakar (senegal).
the mission is going very well: we've done a good seminar for the GLEN-Geco interns and their bosses and we've gathered some new projects for the next year. it's sooooo interesting (though sometimes challening) to travel with a mission of the french department of agriculture...
anyways, with a little help consisting of a couple thousand francs CFA, we made it to the newspapers :) in the 'observateur' there is a nice photo and good article (mentioning my totally misspelled name as well ;)) about our seminar...
still, our little 'equipe' of 5 is really cool :)
burkina is extremely interesting... i wish i could spend more time here... next time maybe. for€ now i'll keep good memories of the local officials:
a policeman at the airport, after a little scene when they wanted me to wait (another!) day for a visa, gave me two necklaces so that "i keep good memories of burkina faso". and so i do :)
a lady in the senegal consulate in ouagadougou also wanted to be kind to me. she doesn't have many 'nassaras' (europeans) coming. i applied and paied for a transit visa for a week. still, when i showed up at the consulate to pick up the visa, the lady announced proudly that she's given me a mulitiple-entry, 3 month-long visa :)
maybe i'll come back for the FESPACO, the most wonderful film festival in africa (together with 'dhow countries film festival' on zanzibar island). it's amazing how ouagadougou, a rather rough and small city (except for the brand new and rich Ouaga2000 quartier...) has so many cinemas...
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