Every morning when I wake up I have to spend about a minute recalling where exactly I am that day. I wouldn’t have expected it, but waking up in Africa is a little more jarring than any place up until now. I started the day with my usual search for coffee and breakfast which took me to La Pause Gourmande, a French cafe that was recommended by our city managers. It was nice enough, I had a couple of coffees and a plate of pastries for something like five American dollars.

After that it was off to our work space here, 7AY, to work and see our city orientation. This is yet another extremely cool work space. I mean there’s a Berber tent on the roof that you can work from. How cool is that!? I highly recommend clicking the link to see some of the photos.

I basically worked all day and in the evening went for dinner at this place Le Georges that I had driven by in the morning and thought looked nice. It was a great place. The manager spoke English (hurray!) and was very overly apologetic that they had no alcohol (despite my not even asking) because it was New Years. On normal evenings it looked like it could be a happening place and he told me they have live music on Fridays and Saturdays so I’ll have to return and check that out. I had the duck for dinner which was very well done, as was everything there.