Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Reminder

a couple people seemed to misunderstand the skype option...if u call me it is free for me. i repeat: incoming calls r free for me, so if you use skype we beat the system. thanks. also, come october/ september if anyone could send me a world map, some of those little candy canes that come individually wrapped and a couple packages of good pens....like the gel type, that would be great. i am plannning a trip around northern benin at x-mas time and i will be painting a couple world maps with the kids and i would be great to give them some candy canes or pens for cadeaux....kids here really like thier pens. hopefully i get back on here in a week and a half. swear-in is on sept 5th and i become an offical government volunteer

Hurray 4 packages!!!

I just got grandmas packages today...thanks for the candy and protein bars!! Also i want to wish my lovely sister a happy early b-day since i cant call her (here in africa i started a tradition for all the volunteers who celebrates a b-day by giving them a b-day beer with a candle in it and singing happy birthday...people seem to like it). It has been a while since i was on the internet last and a couple more people ETed (early termination). No kellie im not still sick. I go on my post visit tomorrow and see the village ill b living in for 2 years...there is no electricity or running water there so that should be fun...just a FYI between september to december i cant leave the village so communication with me will prob drop to nill, but i will try to get to a computer from time to time. Grandma= if you could give me the email of kellies teacher or just direct her to this site that would be great, i dont think peace corps processed my request to be in the letter program because other volunteers have recieved comfirmation and i havent. I hope everyone is having a great time watching the olympics and enjoying A/C!! Talk to you all later, peace

Sunday, August 10, 2008

halfway thru

Another week down....i think next week EA visits our actual posts. everything is going well, but another EA trainee ETed after tech visit. I think tomorrow i help to build a mud stove

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Things EA has done since arriving

Enviros have: planted veggie garden, planted avacado trees, made a compost pile, constructed a clay oven, lots of French, eniromental education, seeded teek trees and others.
I think this week we r going to a sustainable farm to learn some methods and also build ovens for local community people. On thurs I think we pair up and teach a class on a envrio topic, mine is the water cycle....in French

Tech Visit

I went to Dahe, north of Come, with 2 other trainees for a tech visit with a current volunteer for 4 days last week. It was neat, we saw beehives being built and how to attract bees to them. Also, independance day was the first and we took a boat ride on a large lake. We were located in the south but other trainees travelled farther north and the TEFL english teachers got to travel to thier REAL posts. If somone could send a male-male audio plug....the kind you plug into headpone jack ...that would be great. I have had only moderate sickness so far...so everything is going well