Yep you have guessed it; Tim and I are suffering through the adjustment period. We now get to eat pepto with our meals that maybe stay in us for a couple of hours before we see it out the other end :) We are learning the fine art of using a pit latrine :)
It has been hot here. Really hot like 104-5 with it dropping to 95 at night. Not the best sleeping weather but we are getting to sleep outside that is helping some. It has rained here the last couple of days, and when it rains it comes in buckets and buckets. Last night it finally cooled off enough that we could stand to be in the same bed.
Our host family is very nice. The father is a teacher at the high school and the mother is a teacher at the elementary school. They are working with us to get our french up to speed and that is difficult at times! The kids finally stopped being scared of us after Becky broke out CLR to play with them. They spoil us with their cooking. We get to suggest what to have each night for dinner and each morning we have coffee with bread and butter. We even get salad which is very expensive here.
Washing our laundry for the first time was an experience. Our father brought us a large basin and a bucket, put some water in them added a little detergent in the basin and walked off. Becky followed the example from 7 brides for 7 brothers. Thank god for old movies! When our mother got home she brought us a bar of soap and showed us how we were really supposed to wash our laundry. She made it look so easy.
Becky is obsessed with catching one of the 5 million geckos that are running around here. They are everywhere that she can't reach and it isn't proper to catch the geckos. There aren't any snakes here, but there are vultures and I think that they are starting to follow the trainees. A sign of things to come????
There is an awesome golf course in Ouaga. The fairways are suppose to be well kept and the rough isn't to deep. You have great roll cause the ground can get a little hard during the dry season. Granted you are carry the fairway with you in the form of an Astroturf mat. Sounds fun to me.
You can contact us either through email or post. The information is on our contact link. Email is definitely faster but we don't have constant access. Real letters are like Christmas. We have a phone now that has free incoming calls. Call the moms for the info.
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Becky,Tim, Chris says use a bucket, or shirt They say that is the best way to catch a gecko. Glad to hear from you. hope you are both feeling better.Are you going to get to play golf? How many kids do they have? Love you D,M&C
ReplyDeleteYAAAY! I'm thinking of you guys. I'm so glad that you're doing well so far. I was really bummed not to see you before you left. Can't wait to hear about all your adventures!
ReplyDeleteHey ya'll...well Becky at least you got a taste of the hot weather when you visited us here in Texas one summer!! I feel your pain, has been 104 to 105 every day and we have not had rain for a long time, drought conditions are in effect so bad that we will not have 4th of July fireworks!! Keep up the chase for the geckos! Are there lots of stars at night?? Noises??
ReplyDeleteLove you both...take care Uncle Steve and Aunt Paula
And some people always complained about having to watch Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...see aren't you glad now that I made you watch day in and day out ;)
ReplyDeleteGee I wonder what information you could use off of Santa Claus the Movie. At least you can not sign that movie! And you thought Wish Bone was the only educational movies out there.
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