September 13th
68 days left in country, something like
that. I woke up this morning at 2:30 and then tossed and turned for
an hour, suddenly only able to think guiltily about my promised West African French
vocabulary project for Madame DeMarie (my high school French teacher
who let me sit in on her classes before I came to Burkina) and the
pictures I could use for it. I finally gave up trying to sleep at
3:30, made myself some mint green tea, and got started. I don't know
if my computer's fan is broken and things are overheating, my hard drive is overly full, or if
the file is just too large, but it takes an inordinate amount of time
to select and change items or to save the presentation. Still, I got
some done, wrote ideas for needed pictures, and started writing some
descriptions in the notes in my pidgin village French. I've also been organizing the massive amount of
digital resources I got from Lauren Savoy, including a video from a
PCV in Guinea where the first 5 minutes are a perfect example of a
West African market. Apparently everyone there eats rice at home and
in the market, instead of here where everyone eats tô
(although I guess it is rare to buy tô
in the market, but millet or beans or manioc is more of a market
staple than rice in my village).
I watched the sun rise and heard the
village start to wake up as I worked, it was surprisingly nice even
though it felt weird to be awake so early. I started my laundry
around 7am, and had the first load up and drying when the slight
overcast became dark and it started to downpour. After 30 minutes the
rain stopped (the sun had started shining brightly about 10 minutes
previously) and that was it for the day! So strange, the weather near
the end of rainy season.
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