Everyone reading this needs to send a birthday wish to my dad since I am not able to as easily! He is half a century old today!!! And he loves me for making this known on the internet; right dad? Love you!
I am rather upset since I am at the cyber without my USB. I sat up last night typing a long blog entry and with about 40 new photos to show you all and I fogot it at home! you will have to be patient! but since im here i figured id have to fill you in on my most stressful day since you havent heard that side of me just yet. here it goes
so you know i have been taking wolof and trying my best to practice with my family. the problem is that i rely on my french toget me out of any trouble i have and its all good. well! today we have 6 hours of wolof class and we were all dreading sitting in the classroom for so long! so what our teacher said this morning is that we werent going to be in class all day! great right???!! NOT! everyone loaded into the peace corps bus that took us into town to a large plaza. they dropped us off with a few simple rules. we could not have a buddy, we could not speak french and we could not speak english. awesome. i had to walk up to groups of people and start conversations! what?! it was extremely stressful and what our teachers kept saying is that this is reality! this is what we will have to experience every day when we move to site! needless to say it was eye opening.
(side note: a grasshopper just jumped onto my computer)
the country of senegal known as the country of hospitality. they are so nice and will bend over backwards for you. this aspect was essential today. imagine in the states; if you were enjoying your afternoon in the park reading or simply people wathing and some non-english speaker came up to you to carry on the conversation of a 3year old. i know how to say where i live and what i am doing in senegal, but if they get too specific in questions; i have no clue! it was the most interesting activity we have done so far.. but im still here; fighting harder to learn the frickin language of wolof....
trying my best to laugh off the misery of today and enjoy the thought of my dad drinking a spotted cow for me, since im not there to do that with him.
keep the letters and comments coming -- i need it!
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