Sweat Sweat Dance!

28 Août 2010

We're affecting tomorrow morning! Whoa! This is it - I'm moving into my new home for the next two years and it's the beginning of a new job - a new adventure. I am scared. lonely. excited. intimidated. sad. happy. overjoyed. determined. motivated. intrigued. I am all of the above and I am things that can not be put down in words. I am a volunteer.

Let's talk about the fact that:

I'M A VOLUNTEER NOW!
August 27th = SWEAR IN + 22ND BIRTHDAY

It was everything I had thought it would be and beyond. Swearing-in felt so good: surreal. I love everything about it - my complet, my friends, the guests, the speakers, the food, the drinks, the language, the pictures: everything! After the amazing ceremony we went to Chez Simone and off to a dance hall / bar and dance danced danced! Then hopped over to another dance hall. It felt so great to just let loose! It was a blast.

Bowel Movements are Classy

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Yesterday was quite an experience. I definitely had some major digestive ailment. I don't know what I ate or drank - but my stomach was not having any of it all day. I guess I could say it started with the damn arrechede sauce (peanut sauce) & riz = dinner the last day for demyst. It was terrible and even the PCV said she didn't think it was very good. The only flaw in that argument is that I ate the least of the dish and amd the only one with diarrhea. So I think it must be my body being a wimp and rebelling against my attempt at integration.

So diarrhea all day that leaked into the next day (today). Yum. Spent accumulative of about 40 minutes in the bathroom this morning - Terrible. I felt nauseaus all day yesterday as well - just some icing on the cake I guess. The Best. Today I truly thought I as going to yak everywhere - but was only able to dry heave a couple of times and proceed to piss from my butthole. Real Classy.

Aside from being all sorts of weak and sick - I had a pretty good day! A lot of language in the past two days and even more tech lessons - but this is the life of a trainee.

GOOD NEWS:

We're swearing in a Peace Corps Volunteers on my B I R T H D A Y! I'm really excited and I totally predicted it when we were evacuated from Ouahigouya. Also - we get to live with host families in a little less than a week, maybe a little more than a week? I'm just really excited to get out of this dorm-like atmosphere - I want to be back in the rural setting - I want to HAVE to use French and Moore - I want to be integrated within a small village - I want to see the people of this new city! I mostly want to be in a setting that will be like/or similar to my next two years!! YES PLEASE.