Passed!

Yeah! We just found out late today that we all passed our last language test! Now the 50 ton truck of pressure will finally be lifted, and be replaced with a 15 ton truck. :) Now we are all looking forward to the swearing in ceremony, and not really looking forward to buying stuff for settling in to our new abodes. It will be a bit chaotic finding everything, because its so spread out, and getting all 20 trainees things in cars to take back to their sites!

Ok, anyhow, I left on the getting to training.
In the morning in training village we would get woken up at about 5:30 with the prayer call from the mosque, and people and donkeys (making the weirdest noises ever!) and roosters, and any number of other things. We would try to sleep till 7:15 when we had to get up and get ready. As soon as we put ourselves together one of us would go out to open up the door to the house and prop it open. We would then greet all the people in the compound (these greetings are sometimes lengthy) Then we would leave Andy's family's compound and go across the village to my host family's compound to greet them as well. Sometimes they would have my breakfast for me and I would take that to class. Breakfast usually consisited of a small baguette type bread, and tea. On rare occasions I would have rice porriage, but Andy got that a lot. We could get ahold of local peanut butter which is delicious, because its just ground peanuts not added anything, but we would sometimes add a little sugar!) We would then head over to our teachers compound and have class for about 4 hours. After class we would often go take a nap, (the heat, lack of high energy foods, and of course lack of sleep makes you tired!) because the middle of the day is the hottest part, most people would hang out in the shade. Locals ( mostly boys/men) would hang out under shaded trees in certain areas of the village called "bantabas" The women, always doing work for the household, would sit under the porches on plastic mats called "basoos" (pronounced kind of like 'baa-sews') and do idle work like shell mountains of peanuts so as not to get too hot.