Sorry for the lack of updates lately. Have been really busy running back and forth between home and the nursery school. We are finished doing the preliminary stuff on the new curriculum, I'm typing it up, and then we will go back over it for proof reading, etc. It is a lot of work. Next weekend is when we leave to go to Mali! We are very excited. Birthday for me in Mali!
Tonight we are supposed to meet up with some friends at a "pork bar" in a neighborhing village.. supposidly they serve pork there, but I'm not sure if it is pork like Porky the Pig, or like Pumba from Lion King... if you know what I mean. We shall see. We have seen/eaten those before here, they are large, smelly, hairy creatures! Anyhow...I'm thinking about bringing my own makeshift bar-b-que sauce.
We have been having good storms pretty much every day, it is nice, except for the part where our street turns into a river and we have to wade through it to get home everyday. Last night we had a good thunder and lightning show and shower, the thunder would just roll on and on. Random question. Does anyone know why cats aren't scared of the thunder like dogs? Just wondering. I thought this was a cool picture of the clothesline during a good rain.


Perks of working at the nursery school is that they have big mango trees and unloaded about 12 or so mangoes on me yesterday, that were literally as big as my face! They were so heavy, I put all I could in my backpack and had to strap it to my waist, then was sweatily carrying a huge plastic bag full of them with both arms all the way home. I went straight to my family's porch and unloaded the one's in my arms... My arms were dripping with sweat from the contact with the plastic bag, dropped them on the mat, and said to my host mom... "Ndea,.. dutoo a fele" (Ndea, mango is here) and they all laughed at me (of course! hehe). I am going to attempt at making mango "sorbee" icees again with them maybe next week.