Welcome to Niger -- again?

"Welcome to Niger." is what my supervisor said to me when I told him of the difficulty (actually ill-fated trip) at the bus station. There are usually four busses that pass through my town per day, and I have never ever had problems getting on the exciting first four a.m. bus. Well, my teammates got up at 3 and took me to the bus station only to find out that all four of the busses that day were full. Completely full. And the following day was a holiday so there would be no busses running. This had never happened, but there is always room for a first, right? We tried another bus company to find that all three of their busses were full. Ill-fated was right. We returned back to the guest house to go back to sleep and I gave in to the fact that I was going to spend two more days in Niamey.

God always knows what he is doing, and I had a blast this morning, buying a Wednesday bus ticket and then working more on my Anthropology Focus Study. I am mostly done and it has gotten good reviews from my teammates. Tomorrow will be another work day on my report and maybe I will finish it. That would be exciting.

Please pray that I would take everything that happens and look for God's awesome will within it. Even the silly bus schedules!

Peace!