Guess what! Guess who is only 4 days from her one-year anniversary in the fabulous Faso!

ME!

Your favorite Peace Corps volunteer!

Random finding:
My high school is listed on wikipedia.com. How crazy is that?

what's up
temp: in Ouaga, it's a cool 82F which feels so lovely
reading: The Audacity of Hope by Barack
just finished: The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coehlo
currently listening to: Flaming Lips
last thing i ate: leftovers from a pseudo-Lebanese place two nights ago
last thing i bought: bag of water
recent butterfly: new bangs (i traded my friend a popsicle for the haircut), support from friends and air conditioning for two weeks
recent onion: e. coli
fave destressing activity: napping on the roof at sunset under the guise of reading after a full, exhausting day of training
unattainable craving: got my eyebrows under control. right now, i'm not craving too much since today is my 9th day in the capital
next lesson: center yourself or just keeping spinning?
next goal: breathe
looking forward to: (1) Togo & Ghana at the end of this month, seeing a natural body of water for the first time in a year and being able to jump into it without the fear of schistosomiasis. (2) also, the satisfaction of having completed one year of this madness. yes.
updated: 30 may 07

I know this is 9 months late but....

here are pictures from the first three months in Burkina, that horrid monster known as:
training!

you guys are mean.
no one leaves messages on my blog anymore :(

i will be in Ouaga until the end of next week because i am being trained to train the new trainees who will be arriving at the beginning of June. yeah!
(which means i can reply to emails without the month-long intervals or i can even maybe -gasp!- chat online!)

here is more information on a few of the words often used on my blog:
Mooré
Fulfulde (for the extra ambitious, here is a written sample of Fulfulde)
Sahel
Burkina Faso (two different links there, either for Burkina or Faso)

current president Blaise Compaoré
former Thomas Sankara, who was assasinated by Compaoré