so its been a while, i know, what can i say. haven't really been that busy but I've been a little out of touch so to speak. So what all has been going on? I think it was back in april or may that i last wrote.
bunch has gone on,
went on a long bike trip ask about that ive got a write up floating around
Biked out to the Bassari Initiation festival out in Salemata. interesting time but i left before the ceremony actually kicked off on the second day so as to not bike back in the heat of the day/not be around 25 other toubobs
Tried to bike to Tambacounda and ran out of water with a 1/3rd of the distance left and hitched a ride with a car the rest and then picked up a stomach bug.
Champions league final, the best team won, what can i say. and then C. Ronaldo left, wanker.
Confederations Cup with the USA surprising the shit out of everyone by getting to the final and racing out to a two goal lead only to lose 3-2.
AIDS garden thing kinda is up in the air because of well im not really quite sure although my participation has been dropped to a minimum. wankers.
Biked some rice out a friends village about 20k out and back during the hot part of the day, not the best idea. dehydration's a bitch and I'm not the biker i was when i got here.
Checked out the pepiniere that we made out in Dindefello for a 500 mango orchard, looking good.
Birthday, not a fun day
Boss came to check out my work and was quite pleased with what ive got going on here.
my pepiniere at the regional house has a great germination rate and theres lots that will be out-planted from there
Visited Kevins site for the day and ended up finding a source for sizel plants, good find kinda made my day as when my boss came out for our site check up, he mentioned he wanted to find somewhere where he could get some for demonstration during the next pre service training.
Went out to Sheila's village as well and hung out there for a day to see what all she was up too there, got my wireless odometer stolen, not the whole thing, just the computer which is useless alone. assholes, that'll bring you down
Also working on getting a list of all the fields that current volunteers are working with to make a database for future volunteers to use.
iPod broke, africa wears down and breaks anything and everything, bye bye music on rides
giardic scists and persistent headaches, shitty literally, not fun and the headaches aren't going away
The decent of 50 other white people onto Kédougou (my site) is a great way to stress the hell out of someone, especially with a party and 5k to prepare.
Independence Day 4k Thomas and I organized went off great and was a great start to the 4th. 18th overall, absolutely smoked by the locals, of which it was basically military, firemen, and police participating. So they better be able to whoop a sick, skinny out of shape, toubobs ass, i was def the first toubob though my legs are still a little sore from that and i wont bother telling my time for those of you who care as it wasnt good. The winner was about 12min
And then the big party that Kédougou throws every year that i tried and failed to avoid. Not a good time for me particularly, avoidance and anxiety to the max moy´y´a mi anddi
Jatropha seeding out in Djakaba with Andy and some of the other new volunteers, which reinforced my belief that I'm losing my ability to bounce back from rides as I'm fried, it was a good ride though.
Have yet to hear back from the bank about my missing 200,000 cFa, so again that sucks, fuck banks
Tour de France season! Mark Cavendish is kicking ass and armstrong aint doing half bad as well, good time of the year from a sporting perspective. what a bunch of badasses, seriously the hardest sporting event in the world! Not only is it the season for this, but i can watch it as well! French TV, sat drinking a beer enjoying this past stage with one of the new volunteers, great time
Frogs! So when it rains frogs come out. Theres big puddles everywhere down the street, we wont mention the malaria, but the frogs are wonderful! absolutely wonderful, overwhelming almost with all their calls
Flooding toilet, well the rain also tested the architectural design of my douch which sucks as it failed miserably. The first mildly big rain and the damn thing filled up 2/3rds of the way with water, one more rain and im fucked.
In the future, i can look forward to these things
Organized a grafting training seminar for the region with Andy, 4 dates across the region in collaboration with the other ag/fo volunteers here in Kédougou. Beginning of august is when that goes on.
A bike trip to Kolda at the end of august, maybe further on down that road as well
a new pay period! losing out on that 200,000 kinda fucked me for this period
erosion control with my counterpart in his field and other fields of interested parties around kédougou.
New site mate in October, will probably know pulaar better than me but interesting none the less
beginning the getting back in shape process as its not as hot and i dont have babies living in my gut! WoooHooo for that one
New premier league season in august! alhumdeallah! im sick of real madrid buying everyone they see, the season needs to start
inchallah my head will stop wanting to explode most of the time, we'll see about that one
So its not all bad, but im not really having a great time at the moment, i was kinda waiting for something good to come along to write about, but alas not really happening. Everyone here is really nice though and keep my spirits up so what can you do right. Off to Dakar on monday to take care of some med stuff there, we'll see what they say. so were on a large scale recap this time, if anyone has any questions about anything in particular let me know and ill fill in the gaps if I've got the time. Ill be in touch if i feel like something fun and interesting has happened.
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