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In June I took a vacation to Morocco with my good friend from college, Kellen. The summer and fall months in the States mark the rainy season in Togo which means it's also farm season. Here I am helping plant soy among the corn crops. My friend, Catherine, and I supporting the red, white, and blue for the 4th of July in the Togolese fabric, pagne. When it comes to talking about malaria, sometimes you have to get creative. These past few days, my closest neighbor, Tarah, and I turned a popular cards game into a malaria conversation starter at each other’s markets. At the tchouk (the local beer) stand, we played a card game that involved putting up a mosquito net, singing about mosquitos, malaria two truths and a lie, and answering basic questions about malaria. It can be hard to get community members to come and participate in health talks, so we brought the talk to them. In July, I traveled up north in Togo to watch a Togolese favorite wrestling match called Eva...