Overwhelmed! Wow! I am in Africa.

I am so overwhelmed with choices to make. Where and what I should do for my 3rd year in PC. Human factors and political climate continue to cast a huge cloud of uncertainty over my plans. Africa tests me physically with its harsh climate, but more than ever she tests me in patience, flexibility and ingenuiety. Sometime I wonder if I have what it takes to go down a less structured career path in a even less certain environment.

For a Fouta girl, Bamako is too flat, too polluted and too yellow/brown (full of dust). Didn't take me long to find the countryside with rolling hills to bike to where air is a lot fresher and I am seeing more trees. Hills here are nothing compare to the mountains of Fouta. Roads are paved. So I can go for 70-80 km in less time than a bike ride of 45km in the Fouta. It's nice again to feel the wind in my face too bad not in my hair because PCV has to absolutely wear a helmet, and it's moment like this riding down the countryside that I say to myself, "wow! I am in Africa, cycling, not a tourist rushing through the sites, didn't think I could ever do this."

(here is a picture taken on the bank of Niger River)