hello again!!
okay so i'm blogging again when the summer is almost over. it's now the middle of august. I've been sick for like a month I dont know what is up with that. First francois gave me a cold, and from there i got headaches which turned into a cough which turned into a fever with sneezing and the worst headache i've ever had in my life which no ammount of drugs would make go away, until i took antibiotics, which didnt work, finally I came to ouaga and took very strong antibiotics and codine to ease the pain, which worked, but i still feel sick to my stomach and dont have an appetite, and i just started sneezing again. Okay so the doctors when they healed me with strong antibiotics called it a lung infection cause they could hear crackling in my lungs but at the same time i had ameobas, which i guess caused the stomach problems. Anyway, theyre all supposedly cured and gone at this point but i still dont feel quite right. I'm going back to village tomorrow, maybe a few days of lots of sleep and relaxation (ie bordem) will do me good.

mmm i just ate a banana split

anyway, things are going very well. I just got back from ouahigouya where i talked to the new trainees about what it's like to date a burkinabe. They were more interested than I thought they'd be. We went over on time but they all stayed and asked lots of questions even after already hearing a long speech about it given by me and my friend andrea. I remember this session from when i was in training and I remember noone asked any questions. So anyway it was good.

So what have I done this summer. I've been avoiding village as much as I can, theres nothing to do and its really boring during the rainy season (thats now). So I hang out in ouaga when I can, since francois is here, and I've gotten to know his family and neighborhood friends a bit. I went to koudougou for life skills training, francois and I went horseback riding which was freaking awesome, I spent a little bit of time in kongoussi in the beginning of the summer, a week in ouaga for mid service training, and two weeks in france with my parents. France was fun but it was way too romantic to be there with my parents, I missed francois. But it was very fun and great to be in a developed country again!

So i learned something scary today. My friend has been dating a burkinabe for a year and he just got married to someone else a couple weeks ago that she had no idea about. What the hell??




hi everyone. this is cassandra's friend zach. you should come visit.




Ya that was zach. He says I can delete that but I think I'll keep it.
Anyway, I think this year I will work hard on actually getting secondary projects going. I am going to get a ton of moringa seeds and give them to my students so we can plant them and grow them together, and then I will teach them how to care for them in their courtyards and how to cultivate the leaves, or maybe we will start a school garden, or plant them around the community, I'm not really sure. Francois and I are also working on getting funding for a theatre production about HIV, and I will do an english club.

Okay Im going to go watch pochahontus. bye!!