- · I was stung by a scorpion / The next day I avoided a scorpion sting (though my friend’s skirt did catch fire in the process of trying to kill it…)
- · I dealt with the sudden death of my counterpart from an asthma attack and experienced my first Senegalese funeral / My Wolof tutor had a baby girl and I went to my first naming ceremony.
- · I planted many trees (and will soon plant many more) / A tree toppled over on top of me because termites had eaten and killed the roots.
- · I dealt with the sudden onset of the hot season in Kaffrine / I had a short break from the heat by a visit to the delta region.
- · My computer crashed / I have an amazing friend who is working on sending me a new one.
- · I taught school gardening lessons where the kids made fun on my language and didn’t really care about the lesson / and I taught classes that were engaged and excited about gardening and didn’t mind that I stumbled along with my words.
Other things that I have done this month include taking an
80 km bike ride with Christi to visit the sites of Sarah F and Lorraine PD (In
that time we played in various trees, visited the scary acacia forest, saw the megalith
stone circles, were nearly stung by the scorpion, and watched Lorraine battle a
flaming skirt, and it was all worth to so I could watch Sarah sit in a bucket
and open her birthday present), had some great dinner parties with friends, and
slowly progressed with my language.
So life has been working hard to keep things fairly balanced
in my world this month. I’m constantly
learning and growing, I have amazing site mates who are patient with me and
teach me very useful things, and I’m always collecting new stories to tell.
(If you want to know about any of these specific stories,
just let me know. Sorry I fail at
posting regularly and crazy experiences tend to add up quickly here.)
