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I grew up all over the east coast until we settled in pennsylvania my sophomore year in high school. I then went to college at Oklahoma State, graduated, then moved back home for a couple of years to figure out what to do next and prepare for grad school... then on sort of a whim I applied to the peace corps and if all goes well I will be moving to africa in june 2007! I can't wait!! I love learning and being around animals and nature, I love my friends and most of my family :) I have no idea what I want to do with my life, maybe go to grad school in anthropology? Not sure about after that though. So, why go to africa? With plans like mine, why NOT go to africa??

Monday, August 18, 2008

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!!

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