“What the heck?” Moments

I’d like to briefly record three moments recently in which I turned a corner and had to do a double-take- am I really seeing what I’m seeing? Problem being, there was nobody else around who found my discovery unusual, hence I will share with you.

1. I was closing my door of my hut, getting ready to depart for work and there was a camel- yes a camel- outside my door. Wait, what the heck? It was pretty darn huge too. The man sitting on top of it was singing blessings in Arabic and calling children to come sit on top of it- kinda like Santa Claus.

2. I saw a woman without a nose when I went to do a child nutrition talk in a neighboring village. Yup, no nose. Just a hole in her face. Yikes.

3. I recently visited a small satallite village looking for some of our missing children in the nutrition program. Seemingly way out in the brush, I was checking out the village when I came upon a Malian woman sitting in the middle of a concession typing on a laptop! There isn’t a working computer in the CSCOM or the Mayor’s office- so how did this get here? Before I totally felt like I was dreaming, I was told that these are the people from Bamako working on the census. I had actually met them before and knew they were doing work out here, I just didn’t expect to come upon them in the middle of nowhere.