Sunday, May 3, 2009

A little while ago, in a country pretty close to here...

This is my first post. Not much to say here that you probably don't already know.

Cliff notes: I will leave for Burkina Faso--a landlocked country in Western Africa--in June to teach Secondary Education Science. I'll be teaching in French, and probably have to learn a local language or two to get by. For the first three months, I'll live in Ouahigouya with a host family for pre-service training, in which I'll learn everything from how to speak French to how to get out of bed in the morning without the promise of electricity to power my Mr. Coffee machine. In late August, I'll move out of Ouahi--location TBA--to begin teaching.

That's the gist of it. Wish me luck!