Exits

Hi everyone,

I'm in Mali. More specifically in a town called Mopti which is a busy, dirty little thing on the banks of the Niger River, so everyone get their maps out. Everything is fine, wonderful, awful, beautiful, vibrant, exhausting, exhausting and exhausting.

Besides that, I just wanted to freak everyone out a little with a security message that our County Director sent out a few days ago about an accident involving a bus, and some people, one of them being another Mauritanian Peace Corps volunteer. This is the same bus route that I will be taking to get back to Mauritania in about a week. Presumably it will neither be the same bus, nor the same driver but one can never tell.....


Hello Mauritania Volunteers and Trainees:

Please excuse the interruption. I wanted to take a moment to brief you on two issues that may be circulating in the general PCV discussion forums:

First off, as many of you may know, a Mauritania Peace Corps Volunteer was attacked (.......blah blah blah, this is something else......)

Secondly, early this morning at approximately 04h00 a bus traveling from Bamako to Nouakchott was involved in a serious accident 15 kilometers West of Kiffa. The driver reportedly fell asleep at the wheel and the bus rolled off of the road. One Mauritania PCV was traveling on the bus at the time. I am grateful to be able to report to you that the PCV was not seriously injured and is doing fine. Sadly, three Malian citizens were killed in the crash and 10 others were seriously injured. The Mauritanian national information service published an article on their website (see attached).

So anyway, there is that. This will almost probably most likely maybe not happen again, but if I die in a horrible crash, just know that it was worth it, and I love you! (and at the time I was probably really hot, tired and uncomfortable anyway, so it was almost surely an improvement).

-Coltie