Saturday, February 1, 2014

Journal Post 1/24



STILL no new notebook :(

-Woke up, sluggish, got everything ready, and mom knocked on my door to see if I was sick… nope, just slow. I was just about to leave to chill outside, too, hah.
-Texted, tried to study… outside, for two hours. Which I did until I couldn’t stand the damn flies anymore and retired.
-Went inside, prepped lunch, ate all of my dried apples, exercised, polished off my peanut butter, drew, studied the tiniest bit, washed dishes
-Shoveled a path to my door since my brother demolished a hut next to me that was unused and the leftover cement was everywhere. I also small boyed some of the kids and my older sister who I really liked to help me and gave them some candy for their services.
-Got down to business at 6 and made marshmallows again, just like, 6 this time. Brought them to the market.
-Sped walked to the market, gave the ladies who sell vegetables there and my dad a try. They all liked it a lot! It was fun chatting with them and there weren’t as many people there like there are in the mornings.
-Walked back, so many guys wanted to talk in English to me but I insisted on responding in Serehule. Or I just keep on walking/ignore them. Teenage boys can be really obnoxious here in groups, blah. They whisper this PSSSSTTTT to you and it’s unpleasant but it’s the norm. It doesn’t affect Gambians at all since they grew up with it but, shit, it rises something fierce inside me. It just feels like it’s harassment but it’s probably because they want to chat to me, which, 99% of the times I DO NOT want to do with some random male stranger. In English. Call me a brat but… they’re just sketchy sometimes. I am a perfectly happy conversationalist if they greet me rather than trying to PST me for attention :)

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