stargazing

I saw the big dipper the other night. It's completely vertical from this point of view. Strange. Totally familliar and yet totally foreign.

I love it at night here. It cools off a lot and there is almost always a breeze. I'm staying with a family of four in the village outside the Peace Corps training site, although each night about a million kids and teenagers come over to watch TV. They watch a Brazillian soap opera, dubbed in French, the news, and Hausa music videos. I sit and watch the starts, instead.