life in village

I really wanted to put some pictures up but I forgot my camera at site. I always seem to forget one thing at site when I come into Sikasso, anyway I’m in for a few reasons: one, I was really sick and I stopped going to the latrine long enough to come into Sikasso, no I’m actually feeling a lot better thanks to cipro, it was a really bad case of bacterial diarrhea that I could go my whole life without ever experiencing again, so I thought I would finish my recovery in the city. Another reason is that the new trainees are in the region and I want to try and meet them if possible. Crazy to think that that was us a year ago, and now we’re the sophomores.
My concession is looking really great and I took lots of pictures, I’ll put them up next week. I have a few vegetable plots and lots of flowers. That’s basically my life right now, my yard and my cat (I also took some pictures of him). We’re still having some killer rains, and people are still in the fields. A girl from my host family got married so there was a big fete in village, but I was sick and didn’t get to do anything. It was funny, I’ve never been sick in village, and I told, like one or two people, and by the next morning everyone knew and I had all kinds of visitors and well wishers stopping by, even the chief stopped by and was like, ‘why didn’t you tell me you were sick,’ I didn’t know I had to and I was kinnda busy going to the negen.... Anyway I’m on the mend.
Going into Bamako the 5th? to help out with training so I’ll be posting again sometime soon.
Peace and love to all.