So I have some good Africa stories for you. Yesterday we were sent out to entrepreneurs to talk to them about their businesses and how they use accounting or if they use accounting. I was paired up with my friend Ravi (who is a hipster) and we went to a cobbler. He had lived in Ghana so he spoke perfect English. We asked if we could see his accounting ledger and he showed us one entry from 1997 that took up one page of a notebook. The rest of the notebook had pages of this guys personal thoughts on the philosophy and history of rastafarianism. And then he told us about beninese weed laws. He had a Hitler stache. I have photographic evidence.

After, we went to learn about Voodun. We talked to a voodun priest and we asked him how you can tell if someone practices his kind of voodun. He told us that he has a lot of scars but if he showed them to us he would have to do a purification ritual and that it would be expensive. We asked him how much and he said 20,000 (40 bucks) and then he pointed at me and said or I could just take her, she has really nice legs. Awesome, a voodun priest offered to trade me in exchange for showing our group his sacred scars. We declined.

Today, we went to meet a traditional healer and he showed us all of the traditional medicines including rocks, plants, snakes in jars, even a lion skin, a whole lion. He can cure AIDS all he needs is 10,000 cfa and 10 months. I am serious. So that was my last two days and a lot of really interesting stuff happened in a short span of time, otherwise things haven't been quite as interesting.

This week we are visiting our posts and then returning to Porto Novo for two more weeks of training before moving to post permanently. Swear in is on September 25th, very exciting!