Woke up. Did my morning dailies. Decided to don on a new shirt from the free pile Miss Alicia picked up for me which was this Gambian style one and proceeded to stop every 5 minutes to talk about how nice it was to my family/strangers on the street. I thought I'd be the last one to arrive at Ida's but that wasn't the case, phew. We did a lot of technical vocab today and it was haaard. Ida also springs it on me that the Training Manager, Assistant to the Country Director, AND the Inspector General of allll of the Peace Corps organization is coming to watch the Serehule ladies do our breastfeeding trial tomorrow... wtf? Thanks for the heads up, like the day before. Luckily, I already started looking over the lines and memorizing a couple of days ago but still I had to get a few more things in and I was definitely no master. I'm happy to see that I can figure out what certain passages mean on paper and identify vocab but I still need to write it down and practice. I gave my notes to Alicia so I really didn't do much language today away from Ida's. I tried finishing Peace Corps homework but got stumped on this long assignment about diagnosing case studies which I'll tackle tomorrow.
I went home with ample time to go fetch water twice, water my garden, go on a long, far bike ride where I almost crashed into goats, showered, AND washed my hair, set up the nicest PC-worthy "cribs" entertainment center...which involves me eating in front of my luggage case with my health technical handbook propped up by the extended suitcase handle. I had all my other stuff on top of other luggage cases and bidogs, sat cross legged, and ate like three pounds of boiled peanuts while I studied. SMALL VICTORIES are the sweetest victories, it's really hard to find a good position and have everything around you and have the light shine on what I want to read. I was almost ready to leave my throne with Rohi and her friends came by to chat. After that, I finally went outside to see that the kids wanted me to help them with a school project....which involves drawing an elephant. Of course I didn't want to do the work for them but I somehow communicated that I wouldn't do it unless the two elder kids drew three elephants for practice - and they did! So then I went Picasso on their project and actually went overboard to the point where they were like "Mariama, it's okay," but I got a huge group around me and if you know me, I am an art perfectionist.
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