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Hey team. Great news, I am not dead or even slightly wounded, I have, however, been very busy and without a computer thus the lack of blog posts. Sorry, I live in a third world country.

So, great news is that as of 3 o'clock on Saturday I officially finished with my first year of teaching. Hallelujah! Man oh man, I was so ready for school to be over. It was so hot and people kept giving me random tasks to do and asking me to help them with things and telling me grades were due a week earlier than I was expecting and it was incredibly busy, possibly the busiest I've been at site ever or at least before the craziness happened so I just forgot. But it ended, we had a sweet closing ceremony and ate a lot of food and then all the students went home to their families and I celebrated in a typically hilarious fashion with my neighbors. And then Sunday I came into the capital and here I am for a whole week able to check my email daily (hint hint).

I'm here for a training of all the trainers/people who will be working with the next stage/group of trainees who will one day become volunteers. Today we had a fun filled day talking about the changes in the program, the philosophy of development and sexual harassment. Neat huh? But now I'm sitting under a fan, freshly showered and writing you all, I would be perfectly happy if my google chat was working but the internet isn't cooperating, but since we can't have it all I suppose I'll just have to get by. 

Yesterday I played utlimate frisbee and today I'm real sore, a sure sign my body wants me to start working out again, and I think I just might now that it's not crippilingly hot. Also, someone downloaded a new HBO show called Game of Thrones and it's quite good, so feel encouraged to check that out if you don't hate HBO.

Quick word about summer plans. School is over, I'll be in Ouaga all week and then Sunday I'll be back at site for about two weeks, helping kids prepare for their big test which if they pass it, will allow them to go to high school. Then on the 24th I will be going to Ghana for a week and I will lounge in a hammock and swim in the ocean and read and not talk to anyone unless I want to and then in English and right now I couldn't be more excited about it. A break couldn't be more needed. And then when I return I will work stage for a couple of weeks, help out the new would-be Volunteers, and then go back to site and help my neighbors in the next town over do a girls club. I'm looking forward to my summer, good mix of being at site and being away from site, visiting friends and seeing a bit of countryside. It should be a nice little mix and I know that before I'm ready, it'll be October and school will start again. And so it goes...