A year and a half ago, we moved back to Canada after living in Burkina Faso for 5 1/2 years and serving within a church context there. On Nov 9th, we'll be starting our trip back to Burkina to visit friends and my brother-in-law and his family there. We'll be there for 3 weeks, spending the first and last week in the capital city of Ouagadougou (Wa-ga-doo-goo) where we lived. During the middle week, we'll travel down to a couple smaller villages where we would visit regularly.
Right now, the pile of things to pack is growing, as is the kids' excitement at returning to the people and places that they all three still remember very well and with great fondness. Kenai had completely lost his French within months of returning to Canada at the age of 3 but is recovering his understanding of the language remarkably well as we practice speaking it. Danika and Asher have both lost some of the vocabulary and ease with which they used to speak French, but I suspect that this will come back quickly. So we'll try to share our adventures with you periodically throughout this trip. ---Tany
