We didn't do much Monday and Tuesday. Monday morning we had our long anticipated meeting with Professor Thera (it was supposed to be Saturday, but didn't happen). We discussused our trip to Bandiagara; at first he suggested we fly, but when we expressed that we would rather drive so we could see the country side he agreed and suggested that we go with him and his daughters on Wednesday (he was taking them to see the Dogon country). MOnday afternoon we went to see Moctar (he had emailed saying he would be in by 10am, then Thera had called and he promised to be in by 11:30, but he wound up coming in by 12:45pm). We exchanged money ($1 = 469 CFA) and left with a large wad of bills (its actually a little difficult to exchange because we wind up with large denominations that aren't really good for small exchages). Later in the day we played frisbee with Fredrick (and were apparently a sight to see).
Tuesday we were supposed to meet Thera and Djimde (who had just returned from the US) in the morning and then go to a lecture on the cellular biology of plasmodium (the malaria parasite) at 10am. They hadn't come by 9:55, so Liz and I headed off to the lecture. I appreciate that many scientific words are similar between french and english. After the lecture we bumped into Djimde (I suppose it wasn't difficult for him to identify us). We talked to him for a bit in the lounge at the school and as we were talking I watched the very dark clouds approach. It began ranning just as we made it back to the guest house (I decided to stand outside for a while and watch, the storms here are really something to see). We wasted the rest of the afternoon reading and packing to leave in the morning.
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