Hi everyone!
Sorry that there arent pictures yet..they will come soon!
The past few days ive just been getting oriented here in duekoue. im staying in the house with the sisters-sr vicky, yvette and marguerite and have my own room with a shower so its really nice.

Thursday night there was the biggest storm ive ever seen/heard/experienced. Tropic thunder, if you will. Im sure that kids were scared because i was fairly certain it was the apocalypse.
It was impressive but then we didnt have power for like 36 hours. LOL!

Friday was my first day at the dispensary and it was apparently a slow day. It was all kids except for i think two people and basically everyone had a fever, cough, diarrhea problems. malaria for all! Thats an oversimplification but you get my point.

Living with the sisters is really great and this would be much harder if i wasnt with them. We eat all our meals together and they think its funny when i dont understand their french. The only thing they find funnier than that is my english. Heres how it goes- they ask me to say something-for example barack obama. So i say it. then they laugh so hard...are in hysterics as they try to say it like me. They do this exaggerated i-sound-like-theres-something-in-my-mouth accent to try to sound like me and it actually is hilarious.

Sr Marguerite is always asking me if im scared. Was i scared of the thunder? was i scared that it was so dark at night? am i scared about the elections? i say 'ummm un peu?' i dont know maybe i should be more scared about...everything.

Today at mass there were maybe like 200 people and i had to stand up at the microphone and introduce myself. It went well i think and they clapped especially when i said ill be teaching english. It was at the end of mass like where they make announcements so the guy who came to the microphone after me made some comment about my french and everyone laughed. im sure i sound absurd to them so i would probably be laughing too. in fact i did laugh.. just trying to fit in you know.

Thanks for reading this... i feel a little weird using their computer for a long time so im going to go but will write again soon.
bye!