Alright, already

I'm on the other side of the planet, sunburning in August, lacking electricity, turkey, and internet, and people are STILL managing to make me feel guilty about the amount of time the blog's been left hanging.

Well, it's my first encounter with the cyberbeast that is the world wide web in a month. I've got 14 minutes left on my timecard to give you an update. It's Thanksgiving today. I celebrated last weekend with a few other volunteers. We substituted chicken (that's Poulet in french) for turkey (though, oddly enough, upon leaving saw two wild turkeys chatting it up), threw together some stuffing which included Peppers and for some reason reminded us of Pizza, mashed Potatoes, and two types of Pie. Pumpkin and Pudding. That's a lot of alliteration.

This weekend is the Muslim holiday Tabasky. I'm not entirely sure what goes down, though I've heard a lot of talk of a goat roast. Mmm-mmm. I suppose every locale has it's favored, traditional act of carnivorism. Thank god for it, too.

Teaching turns out to make time go by pretty quickly. I've got a busy Monday thru Wednesay, a nice relaxing one class on Thursday, and nada for Friday. As it's cooled off, finally (by which I mean high 70's--it's tolerable to be under the sun), I've been doing a lot of biking. Two weekends ago I visited Sapouy (google it) with another volunteer. Today I'm in Koudougou, to head back tomorrow and see what I can catch of the party. Goat leftovers anyone?

I'm thinking of you all back home this holiday! Eat a bunch of dessert for me, and tolerate a little american football.

Best wishes,

Jon