Resurrecting the blog

I started this blog as an experiment, to see how it would work...and the answer was, not super-well. Just didn't have enough to say at that time. BUT, I'm going to give it another try! I will be moving to Cotonou, Benin, to teach at the University of Abomey-Calavi and hopefully get some research done as well. Hope to post photos, observations, and other things here as I go along; possibly some in French, but with translations, since a large part of this adventure has the goal of improving my mediocre French language abilities. I have a little less than two weeks before I ship out to Cotonou: I'll post on occasion as I get ready, then start for real once I arrive.