Good Work Good Times

Hey guys, how's it going. Just back from Ouihigouiya(a similarly unpronouncable named town) doing a the moringa presentation for the new PCV's. I did an hour Powerpoint presentation and then did some demo's on how to make moringa powder from leaves and how to plant the seeds. The immediate feedback was really positive and made all the work i put into it worthwhile, so I indulged myself a little and patted myself on the back. I got to spend 3 days with the newbies and got to know the class a little bit more. It was nice to meet and hang out with some genuinely nice people who were in the same place i was a little more than a year ago. I wasn't there to regal my never-ending knowledge upon them, they had good ideas of their own.
This group was actually pretty playful, like mine. One night when we got kicked off the only volleyball court I've seen in Burkina, by an actual Burkinabe teama, we decided to play....Freeze tag. That's right, the 'ole recess game we all know and love. It was hilariously fun. Indicative of our lazy lifestyle, the game didn't last more than 5 minutes at a time, before we were all bent over laughing and panting. When we were honestly too tired to play more, but we had daylight left, we decided to play Red light/Green light. Hilarity ensued again. I was the first caller. Yelling out the colors, yellow being for slow motion, was side splitting. Especially when they all had frozen facial expression. What a bunch of goofs, but fun I haven't had in quite a while. Nevermind the giggling Burkinabe's watching our frozen forms mid-stride.
The morning after my presentation, I hoped a bus and now am back in ouaga, getting ready to go back to village. I'll be preparing for a women's day celebration and will try not to grit my teeth as I watch the festivities that do nothing of that nature. Then I'll try to start up more activities with my theatre group and keep them motivated and not out to kill each other. Good times again. It'll be good to be back in village. Maybe this time I will actually move back into my old house. Maybe not, I've come to expect nothing from the Health committee and their worthless president. I've done a few things to get ready for my class at the high school so that'll be starting up again, hopefully in full force before i come home for vacation.
A vacation I'm greatly lookin forward too. I hope this will keep me girded for the last 5 months here. May they fly fast and furious, of course, I'll probably still cry when I leave village for the last time despite all the negative things I've wrote about the few people who really suck there. The majority of people in my village are fun for a joke and decent to hang out with, so the laid back nights and evenings, I'll miss for sure. The heat, not so much.
Okay, that's enought rambling for now. Love you all very much and am looking forward to see you all again.
Take care,
L