Weird Wild World

While chatting with a neighbor yesterday I learned another interesting piece of information about Burkinabe culture. Apparently, when a woman gets pregnant but the man denies that the baby is his, it always happens that once the baby is born it looks exactly like his father- so the guy can no longer deny that it isn’t his child because it is an exact photocopy. Nice.

So this post is current, I'm typing it up right now and will then post it. Two days in a row! So lucky. I'm sitting here in the transit house in the capital downloading podcasts to listen to at site, wishing people were awake in america and on gchat, typing up this blog post and overhearing the others watching the newest episodes of Glee (that show has really gone downhill, but it's still entertaining. Modern Family on the other hand, still hilarious). This week is the international arts show here in Ouaga, it includes all the west african countries and happens here every two years. We went yesterday and I"m going back today because holy cow it's amazing. Makes me wish I had a ton of money because then I'd buy you a ton of sweet stuff and then send it to you and you'd be all about it. There's jewelry, traditional masks, painting, tapestries, i saw a really sweet chess set made out of granite, really awesome, some statues carved out of wood, animal horns, stone tons of stuff. I'm going to steal my friends pictures and then upload them at some time later.

Finished my first month of teaching and all in all it went really well. This week had a bit of a break through with the students, think they are becoming more comfortable with me and no nearly as terrified to speak to me, which is great because I can't do my job if no one talks to me/is terrified of me. And now it's november and then suddenly it'll be december and then the first trimester will be over and everyone will be back in Ouaga for more training and a christmas party and then a new years celebration and then it'll be 2011 and that's crazy. Days go by pretty slowly but weeks go by really fast. I'm getting along really well with my neighbors/fellow teachers, men bother me all the time but I think I've figured out how to deal with their pesky advances, and all in all things are great.

And I'd just like to end on this note, a girl walked into the transit house wearing a barack obama patterened shirt, basically just a shirt with barack obama's face on it several times, it's really obnoxious but people here really love it.