Thursday, January 21, 2010






From top to bottom!
Simon and I catching a ride to the bus station.
The rest are all of the kids because they are possibly the best part (they tie with the pineapple...)

Everything is awesome. The heat is impressive and sometimes draining but I'm getting use to it. We wake up with the sun and keep busy until 9 or 10pm at which point I crash into sleep. Sleeping here is kind of nice but it's really humid which is never fun plus every morning at 5am the Mosque right next door starts doing their loud-speaker prayers trying to get people to join in. It usually lasts for about 10 minutes which is way too long in my opinion.

The kids are hilarious. They watch me constantly and tumble over each other to kiss my hand. They dance and cartwheel and sing at the top of their lungs to get my attention. The boy above in the yellow shirt is one of my favorites. His name is Deo and he and his brother are the poorest in their class. But he's so smiley and tubby and loves to practice writing the letter A. The poverty here is outstanding. I need to write more about that later but I just wanted to say hello here since I promised I'd do it. Right now I don't have a lot of free time or confidence in getting around and this internet is about 20 minutes away from the village. So I will try to get here as often as possible!

Tutaunana ba dae.