I am secretly trying to compose this email in both English, French and Pulaar but I am not sure that I can even pull off the first one at this point. In the town of Thies they mainly speak Wolof which I know a VERY small amount of at the current moment. I speak English about 50% of the time, 30% I spend speaking French and the other 20% I am pretending to know Pulaar which I will use when I am at my site of service in south eastern Senegal starting in April. We are all so tense trying to figure out which language is going to come out of someones mouth at this point that we do not even recognize english half the time!
The family I am living with is so kind to put up with me as I stumble through every day... I am a little surprised that they have not sent me back yet. We are all just big bumbling idiots who literally do not know how to wipe our own butts yet... aah, the adventures of a squat toilet and bucket baths with the bugs!!!!
This is by far the single hardest and most amazing thing I have ever and may ever do and it is just getting started. Will add more later, but I am out of time for now.
A jaaraama
Sunday, March 23, 2008
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