FRENCH CHECKERS!

 Father Jean' Baptist, one of our S.M.A. priests (in green), the Catechist from the local parish, Venant (wearing blue), and Domy in white, the guard from our compound, were spending a leisurely afternoon playing "French Checkers". Fr. Jean' is from Benin, West Africa, which was a country colonized by the French. They invited me to play a couple of games, too. Rather than only use three rows on each side of the board, as we do in America, the French use four rows. When a playing piece is crowned king, the king is allowed to move diagonally across the entire row that it happens to be resting on, in a single turn, jumping over any playing pieces in that diagonal row. I also liked the design of the playing board.