late again

Again late but here we are
9/20
So ive kinda missed a few days, but thats cool. Its the 20th and and we spent the day doing training for half the day. We learned about the administration of Senegal for the first half of the first session 8-10. We had a test about the purpose, goals and objectives of our agfo project plans at the end of the session which was cake. Hopefully my language will be easy like that at some point. We got bikes after that which was great as im super pumped for being able to role around on my bike and have a little more freedom in some sense. I got a semi nice one which looked like it hadnt seen maybe as much wear and tear as the last one. It actually looked like a proper bike in the sense that it had a straight bar and seemed to handle well. I might fiddle around with it a little more if i have the time which i will most likely have. It was fun actually screwing around with a bike, even if i was dripping the whole time. I think it should work out quite well. We had a session about safety and security after our the bikes were handed out. The safety and security session was kinda depressing as its meant to scare the crap out of you to get you to behave and not do stupid stuff.
After this session we were done for the day and had lunch. I havent mentioned the lunch protocol which is cool. Its traditional Senegalese style with a big bowl of rice and with meat in it in the middle with 4-5 people sitting around it all eating out of it. Its kinda cool. My host family also eats the same way at dinner so it was nice to get used to that before hand. We had fish today which is very senegalese as they put some pesto type stuff in it thats spicy and very nice. overall ive been very happy with the food in general. breakie leaves a little to be desired as its bread and tea only. lunch and dinner are great though and i eat my fill every time. After lunch i reviewed my pula futa with one of the girls whos in our group. Shes called shelia, every time i hear it i think aussies and crack up a little bit inside. I think we'll work well together in sorting out this language stuff. Steve and kevin will also be good for studying while were in pout as well.
We had our first lesson on ag/fo techniques yesterday which was ubber cool. We learned how to plant a nursery and about seeding and things like that. It was very refreshing to get out and actually do something with my hands as we had yet to do that yet. We have to start a nursery when we get back to our home stay families on monday, well tuesday as we get back monday night. Basically our time in pout is spent learning the language which is important and also now doing a little gardening. Our language lessons are in this secondary school thats a little run down, mind you that quite a bit of things around here are that way, its just how stuff is here. Ill have to take pics when i get back its quite a scene. Its kinda a amphitheater style set up and were kinda backstage so to speak, only theres no curtain or raised stage.
While in the training center, weve run into other volunteers who have come back to assist the trainers in their different bits, weather thats health safety or technical stuff. They seem like an interesting bunch of people and all seem to enjoy it even if they really enjoy coming back to the training center to get a decent meal.
After studying with shelia today we both went into the city to do some interneting and pick up my booboo and pants that i had made at the tailor with the wax cloth that my and aaron bought on monday. It was pretty good as we only paid 5000cfa for it and thats about 10$. Its pretty neat ill have to wear it and see how it behaves.
After we picked up my clothes shelia and i went to the magic croissant for the internet.
When we got back people were frizbeeing and kicking a soccer ball around which was cool. Some of the girls were getting ready to go across the street to run around the track so we got a group to go with them and play a little soccer. It was super fun. I really want to get this language stuff down so i studied after dinner as well.
It was fun playing soccer though, they had a ubber nice field to play on and there were organized practices going on so we had to take the all weather pitch first but once they were done with the secondary field we moved over to the nice grass field. we also got some of the local kids in on it as they were watching us. A Iranian guy was there with his dad running so he joined in as well. It was truly an international affair. Truley global sport soccer is! Theres a game at the end of training where we take on the staff, which im really looking forward too. We'll get smoked but we'll put up a fight if ive anything to say about it.
So im sitting in the multi purpose room type area listening to keller williams incident writing this and chilling. ill have to write more later.