Things are going well for us. We've spent the last two nights at our homestay with Mamadou and his family. They have three children close to our age and they help us with our French. Yesterday morning we were by ourselves for the first time! We walked from the office to the tailor who is making our outfits and we ordered more outfits. Yes, by ourselves with no official language training yet. So I'm not really sure if our outfits will look like what we wanted! Then we walked to the Guesthouse to get towels and water. We went to a boutique to buy some chips to go with our turkey sandwiches. We couldn't read the bags but thought we were getting sour cream and onion (turns out they were spaghetti and meat sauce chips....yum). Then was the real adventure. We took a taxi to our supervisor's house to fix our sandwiches. Well we didn't really know how to get to her house (there are big circles everywhere...circles get confusing). We eventually called her, and she told the driver where to go. We got to her house and walked down to the bakery to get some bread for the sandwiches, but they were closed. Luckily she had some we could use. Then we had our first French class. We learned greetings, numbers (in two languages!), how to say "I am going..." and the verb "to be." Then we had homework to learn 1-1000 in Bambara and 1-20 in French, write sentences, and and practice around the house. It's strange when your teacher can just walk outside at home and give you a pop quiz! Ha. Everyone knows food is a struggle for me, especially if it's not hamburgers or chicken fingers. They notice that I don't eat a lot, but I do eat. Last night was I guess cous-cous with onions and peppers, I think beef, and watermelon for dessert. In a few minutes we're going to go walk around some more and practice our French! A biento!
(I hope to add some pictures soon. I keep forgetting to take them!)
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