Bamako - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

Expectation of Western living standards, scuba equipment, hopes to see Timbuktu or Dogon Country, super high-quality clothes/shoes, shiny brand new car. - Apr 2017


Winter coats. Elitest attitudes. Desire for everything to be spotless/OCD. - Aug 2014


Winter clothes, nice clothes, shorts, anything white, high heels, type A personality, obsessive-compulsiveness, desire to communicate regularly with the outside world, thoughts of diplomatic glamor. Mali is the African backwater. - Jul 2011


Winter clothes, lack of humor, predictability. - Jul 2011


Winter clothes. - Oct 2010


winter clothes,skis,urge to travel, love of seafood, temper, - May 2010


credit cards, shorts, warm clothes, and any political-correctness about skin color. - Sep 2009


Winter clothes. - Apr 2009


expectation that you're headed to a place equal to Paris. This is AFRICA. Many roads are NOT PAVED. The living conditions of most Malians are MODEST and POOR. You might get sick. It is hot. There is dust. There are bugs. Stop your complaining. If you wanted Berlin, you should have bid on Berlin. - Feb 2009


Winter clothes, need for order. - Feb 2009


Winter coat and gear. - Jan 2009


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