This week

Another week has passed and it's been interesting.

More like on one hand it has and not so on the other.

It's been all over the news that the ex president

has stepped down after 27 years and some serious

demonstrations in the capital, Ouagadougou.

It's still an ongoing process as I am posting but 

the hope is that they can resolve it without further

unrest. Cross your fingers for Burkina.

I am a bit away from the capital and there hasn't

been any problems. 

Which doesn't mean that there hasn't been drama

or activity. 

It seems the ex president's motorcade passed 

through our village on his way out of here. I wasn't

by the road at the time but a few of the villagers

gave me the info.

I guess that was sometime in the early afternoon

and at around 5:30 in the evening a military 

helicopter circled the surrounding area on an 

apparent search pattern.

All this led to speculation of the helicopter landing 

about 3 miles away to take the ex prez away.

With another being he stopped up the road a bit

and jumped into an ambulance and made believe

he was a patient and left the country that way.

Truth is ... who knows but it makes for some fun 

and interesting conversations.

On a personal note it brought the projects to a halt

until ... again ... who knows.

(This is the not so interesting part of the week.)

School has been out and without that it's just 

small daily activities. Also there's no word as to

when things will be back to normal.

I can state that daily activities go on as usual here at

the village level but with more talk and a lot of radio

listening by the locals.

 I've been here about a year and have gotten used

to the energy.

It has been a strange and erie vibe the last two days.

The village's energy just wasn't there and easy to

understand why.

Burkina Faso isn't a bad country at all and I am

hoping and praying that things will get settled

soon so it can move on.