Cellphones and Cancelations

Things are changing in Burkina. If you told me two years ago, that I would have more than a dial up connection to the Internet, once I got over the shock, I would kiss you on the forehead. Now I hear that we may have the opportunity to augment our speed again in a month or two (up to a Burkinabé 512k or something!). Also, I never would have believed back then that instead of driving out to a village and wondering whether or not people would show for a meeting, that they would call me a couple of days in advance to cancel the meeting. Now I'm none too excited about canceled meetings, but, wow, Burkina is changing! All this to say that my weekly meeting in Nyi-kpier, with kpe-zuo was cancelled, but I was able to do some catching up on my blog and do some preparations for a mini-team retreat in Dano, next week.