pictures in backwards order

Okay, so I can't figure out how to publish pictures in the right order, so I have posted a bunch, but now they're in backwards order. So if you want to read this as I intended, go down to "Finally a few pics" then read back up to here.

And then you can read this part:

And here is the History Department library where I have been reading dense Nigerien history books in French that my fav prof-buddy Malam Issa keeps loading on me. Today was a holiday called jour ferrier (something like that), which is the day after the crazy night in which Muslims finish reading the Koran (they start 10 days before today, and read the entire thing straight through), then they pray from midnight-4 a.m., then they eat and go to bed; clearly they need to have the day off after that business! Because it was a holiday, the library was closed and someone had to open it for me, but I didn't want to bother him to turn on the fans, so the library was INCREDIBLY HOT; you know that feeling when sweat is dripping off every part of your body?

Tuareg proverb of the day: "C'est le ventre qui transfert la noblesse." = "Nobility is transferred through the stomach (of the woman, who gives birth)." = matrilineal society -- cool, huh!?

Tamashek phrase of the day: "Ma tisofa awazlu? Fel alim d'awazlu fel d'ebogow?" = Where do like to travel? Do you go by camel or horse? (Keep in mind that spelling is only kind of phonetical and the actual pronunciation is only possible if you have inhaled pounds of Sahara sand and can make those amazing raaarrhshshsssshsh sounds).

Hope you like the pics!

xoxo

Mags