Arriving in West Africa for the first time, 28-year-old Katy Sanders feels like she is on another planet. With her husband John, Katy does sixteen months of French study in Switzerland, spends three months in Cameroon learning about African living, and then moves into a mud hut with a grass roof in Benin to do linguistic research, translation and literacy work. Katy writes letters back home recounting her honest reactions, feelings, and changing perspectives...