INA WUNI

The title of my blog is Hausa for good afternoon basically! So yeah we're just shy of three weeks in country. It's great. I'm totally loving it here. It's been hot and it's not even in the hot season yet. We are on demyst. That is where we go out into the country to stay with a current volunteer for a few nights. I went to visit a volunteer who is NRM and Zarma....I'm health and Hausa, but it was great. I want to start a garden and work i nthe fields. I feel like i've forgotten how to type, so I'm sorry in advance. A little about my training. We have class Mon-Fri 8-4ish. And Saturdays from 8-12. I sleep outside under the stars, in a mosquito net. I have a roommate, Kelly. We both luv bluegrass so we listen to it every morning while getting ready to go get breakfast...cafe au lait and bread for me...It's great sleeping outside but I tend to wake up at 5am every morning and the MOON (MOM) is so bright it seems like there is a light right above my head. But if it's not that it's either one of the three donkeys that live just on the other side of wall or one of the ten goats that also live there. So it's great. I don't mind it at all. I had an extreme calming feeling come over me as soon as I got off that plane in Niamey. So great to finally be back in Africa. The people are so kind. It is different from GUinea but you know that was to be expected. Speaking of Guinea, they did get evacuated and one of the volunteers transferred here to Niger...he has actually been to my village becuz he was only 35km away from my village. So that was nice to hear about what everyone was doing and whatnot. Anyhoo I've got to get back to the hostel....I'm starving. I luv you all....keep sending me stuff...it's so great...anything..everything..luv you all!! and miss ya a bunch.