It's almost thanksgiving and I'm here in Sikasso city where us Sikasso volunteers are going to celebrate the holiday together. So what have I been up to? I've spent quite a while at site followed by a brief trip to Bamako and now I'm back in Sikasso city. Why was I in Bamako you ask? My APCD (basically my sector boss) invited me to a Water Sanitation Partners meeting with some NGO and government representatives. It was interesting and I ate really well the two days in Bamako so I'd say the trip was a sucess.
In village nothing too exciting is happening right now. It's harvest time so everyone is in the fields everyday. So unless I go to the fields it's a pretty boring day alone with my cat Bakary. I took some pictures of the cotton trucks being loaded. There's so much cotton around right now, it's a pretty cool sight. This year people in my village are gettin 165F CFA per kilo of cotton. That's about 30 cents in America. Most people's livelihood here depends upon the production of cotton. There's a lot more you can read up on fair trade and price dumping and US cotton subsidies if you're interested- I won't get into it here, but OXFAM does a lot of work on this issue. I put some pics of cotton up on my yahoo pics as well as various other pics.
Just wanted to let you all know I'm alive. Nothing new here. I'll be in Sikasso until Saturday but after that I'm off to village until Christmas time.
5 comments:
hey tonton roger,
I got your package. Thanks. I miss you guys. Lots of Love
happy Thanksgiving dear Michele!...I hope you enjoy the holiday away from home...eat well! we'll be thinking of you!
Peace,
Loan
hey uncle roger i thought about your letter and i thought maybe you should volunteer at a pet shelter or something, i know you like animals or maybe volunteer time hanging out with old people. you're good at games and i know old people like playing games. those might be fun activities.
Michele,
Your blog is very interesting, I am learning how well off we are in america regardless of our social status. Keep up the good work and happy holidays.
John Martell
Hey Michele!!!! I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas. We never think about how much we really have when others have so very little and still yet they are happy. We are thinking of you as always and keeping you in our prayers.
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