still learning

So I just got back to the training center after spending 9 days with my host family, and day after day i learned more pula futa. i feel as if the learning process is going slow but if i look at where i was two weeks ago, i have learned a ton! im starting to hear the language better, which is good. yesterday was the fete of Kordite. that is the second biggest holiday in muslim culture. wikipedia it if u dont know what it is. i dont have time to explain. everyone dresses nice for it so now i have a fancy hand tailored african outfit. i would post pics but i kinda need a laptop for that and i am lacking. it sucks having hundreds of pics and not being ablt to do anything with them. sorry about my poor grammar and spelling. i feel rushed in this internet cafe and still dont know the keyboard that well. i got my hair braided for Kordite. you know, small braids all over. the situation in which was braided is funny. my host mom sells watermelons by the side of the main road in my village. there are rows of women with stands full of fruit that sell to passer byers. a car stops and the women run towards it and try to sell their fruit. it is interesting to see from afar; but because my host mom works there i get to be part of it. i went to visit her at lunch a couple days ago and was introduced to all the women. they are amazing and very funny. they adopted me and sat me down and started braiding. when not running up to cars they sit in a circle on buckets and broken chairs and barvard like enthusiastic housewives. they speak wolof so i had no idea what they said about me. a few spoke french. i sat for 2 hours under a tree watching the women run up to cars while getting braided. sometimes the woman braiding me left to chase cars as well. once all the women jumped up at once and someone threw a baby in my lap and ran towards a car. needless to say, i got to bond with a baby for a few mnutes and ive never held a baby before. i got a proper introducton later. i got pooped on by birds about 10 times while getting braided. the tree i was sitting under was inhabited by about 100 birds with nests. eew.

today i found out where i wil be living for two years. too bad i forgot the paper, cuz i forgot the name of the city. it is a small village about 15 miles from internet/electricity. i will have to bike to the city because there is no transportation. the population of my village is 1000. i will live in my own hut. i will be in the far south east of the country; the only place with mountains. i read that it also has the most wildlife. hippos, crocs, lions, panthers, chimps, baboons, birds, etc. cool, huh? im excited about the 15 mile bikeride, it sounds fun and the guy said it was pretty safe. tomorrow we are driving 400 miles to follow a volunteer for 5 days, to get a taste of the area. i will let you now how it is after that. wish me luck! Oh and the city i will be biking to is cqlled Koboudou or something similar if u want to look it up. Kodougol maybe? i am bad with names. ok bye bye