Dec
28
Highlights of 2011
Filed Under (General) by Rob on 28-12-2011

It’s been a good – and busy – year, with plenty of travelling! Here are fourteen highlights from the year – just click on the titles below to see the posts:

(i) Rob does research in Bozo country (including a 19 hour trip on the Niger river, on the roof of a boat which broke down four times in the middle of the night).

(ii) Song-writing workshop in Dogon Country.

(iii) Seeing a troop of wild baboons running across the road in Western Mali.

(iv) Bamako gets an 8 lane bowling alley!

(v) Rob turns forty.

(vi) Teaching ‘Music and the Arts’ in Jos, Nigeria.

(vii) Pasteurized milk is now available (and cheap!) in Bamako.

(viii) Finding a white Hummer stretch limousine in Bamako (why, I mean, why?!?)

(ix) Bamako gets its first decent icecream parlour.

(x) Harvesting our first ever crop of home-grown bananas (174 in total!)

(xi) Vacation in the Gambia (3 days’ drive each way!)

(xii) Bamako gets a third brige (almost a mile long!)

(xiii) Rob attends and teaches on the Arts in Missions conference in the UK.

(xiv) Chilling out at the Hotel Woloni in Selingué.

(xv) Conducting “Handel’s Messiah” in Bamako Cathedral (December). No post, but here’s a picture for you:

Well, belated Merry Christmas to all my readers and all the best for 2012!

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