Weekend Update

Hello all.  Not the most interesting post I'm afraid, but I can't pass up the chance to take advantage of free internet to inform friends and family of all the thrilling details of my life!  I know I know you've been holding your breath for the next post so here it is :-P 

In my last post I boasted about how I really hit the ground running in 2011... now what is the next logical thing that can come from that sort of hubris? ROADBLOCKS!  Yes things have slowed down considerably.  My nursery bed was eaten by termites, my carrots didn't sprout, my mint cuttings died, and double digging all those terraces is slow and HARD.  These things are minor hiccups though compared to my current roadblock. I've been at the Kaolack regional house for 4 days trying to get over what I have now come to believe is both a cold and an intestinal bug.  PCV life is so so glamorous.  There are times when you want to get out of village for a few days, but this is far from the restful vacation I was looking for.  I'm being good though and am actually allowing myself to stay here instead of forcing myself back to village and work.  Village guilt is a powerful powerful thing, especially when your host mother is watering your garden while your gone.  Those who know me well know that I'm not good at taking time for myself.  I'm much better at working.  Perhaps it's my Catholic roots creeping in to give me this absurd guilt but it's hard to shake.  In reality my sudden jump into massive amounts of work is probably why I’m sick right now.  Work out in the village is a little hard on the body when you’re eating primarily carbohydrates.  It’s going to be fun going to Dakar in February and hopping on a scale for the first time in country… I’m pretty sure I’ve lost a considerable amount of weight.  Anyways I’m rambling.  Also its not my intention to guilt family into more care packages, not that I don’t want them, the juries just still out on whether the 6 in the mail will ever get here.  I would keep writing but the only things I have to talk about aren’t really easy to stomach, unless you’re a PCV that is.  Poop talk is dinner conversation here.  Also I have to get back to watching 30 Rock and then Godfather II :-) Things aren’t so bad I guess.  Here’s some pictures of my exploits from New Years through now.  Enjoy!

The Last Sunset of 2010

And apparently that's all the internet will let me upload at the moment.  Such is life in Africa.  

Cheers,
Garrison