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| All gussied up and with somewhere to go! |
From the looks of my blog one might think all I have been doing my first few weeks back in Mali is eating heart-shaped pita chips and pizza! Luckily there has been a nice mix of settling into the new place (pictures to come), keeping up with school assignments, and melding back into the USAID/PHARE groove.
For my 26th birthday Abdoulaye treated me to dinner at
DaGuido's, one of Bamako's tastiest Italian restaurants (at least, this
article says so) - my fourth birthday in Mali! Here are posts from when I turned
23,
24, and
25. It is fun looking back at my blog posts and seeing the changes I have undergone. At this time last year I thought I was bound for the trans-siberian railway - now I am working on a Master of Arts in International Education and I am engaged! Life changes so quickly!
26 was a little harder to swallow than 25 - I am technically in my late-twenties, right? Oh well, pizza tastes good at any age and I am hoping my laugh lines are endearing :)
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| Goat cheese salad, pizza, mango juice, and some chocolate ice cream - I'm a happy girl! |
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| Ousmane and Abdoulaye |
| Ousmane dropped Abdoulaye off after work and we got snazzied up before hitting the town. |
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| Love this one |
Do you have a favorite way to celebrate your birthday? I didn't put butter on my nose this year like my mom always had us do - there's always 27!
