Where In The World Are Becky and Tim

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You have won an exciting two year vacation to the wonderful city of Boulsa!

Now for those of you who are sitting there asking yourself “Boulsa...Where is that?” My first response to you would be “Why in Burkina Faso silly!” Haha :) I just felt like being a little bit of a smart ass especially since that is how most of you remember me :) OK so putting all my lovely wittiness aside, Boulsa sounds like it is going to be a pretty cool place to live. The city is actually pretty big in size. The city is located in the East kinda between Ouaga and Fada. The city is located close to a paved road, so traveling to the capital won't be too terrible. We are going to be teaching at a big lycee. There is electricity in our city and in our house! I'm pretty pumped about that, so is Tim :) I personally think he is only excited about being able to sleep with a fan blowing on us all night long. Our house sounds amazing. Seb has told us that the house has two bedrooms! This is a pretty big deal here. That extra room is going to be amazing to have. We will be able to have friends come and stay anytime they want. Our house also has a big salon. This is the area that will have the living area and more than likely a small cooking area too. Our house is also equipped with an indoor shower area for our bucket baths :) No more getting to watch people in the courtyard over the low wall in the shower. Oh sweet, delicious privacy!

So some new developments that have arisen over on our interesting continent. I am no longer teaching SVT (natural science) or IT, I am now going to be teaching math! Apparently there were two math teachers at our school that just got affectated. Thus leaving the school in desperate need of at least one math teacher. So now I have to brush off the cobwebs and remember all the lovely lessons that Mr. Mac taught me so many years ago. Oh the endless memories of class in the little school surround by cornfields :)

This coming week is going to be very busy for both Tim and I. On Monday and Tuesday we have a day long counterpart workshop with our homologues from our school. For those of you who are wondering, a homologue is one of our most vital resources while in village. The homologue is there to help us not make asses out of ourselves. Basically our counterparts have been warned that we know nothing and that we are not trying offend anyone, so if it happens that we do offend them we didn't mean it. They are responsible for us when we visit our site this week too. We leave Ouahigouya on Wednesday and head for Boulsa. We get to take public transport for the first time too. Oh goodie! To be honest, I am terrified of public transport due to some of the stories that I have heard. People have told me that they have had babies pee and vomit on them!!! Anyway, its only about a 7 hour bus ride, so think happy thoughts. Once in Boulsa, we have a whole list of people we have to go and meet. First and foremost, we have to go and greet the Chef of the village. We then have to walk around with our homologue and of course meet our neighbors, the perfects of the village, high ranking functionars, and our coworkers. We are also going to meet the current PCV in our village that we are going to replace. We will be taking over his house and working in the school that he did. He is pretty excited to meet us and we are most certainly excited to meet him. We are hoping that he will be able to show us some useful spots around town.

Well I think that is about all that is new here. We are still trudging through our French lessons. I still am not too fond of them, but I am getting better at speaking the language. Tim is doing really good too! We still get our lovely wakeup call from the stupid rooster every morning around 3:30 :) We'll keep you all posted on any new developments. Hopefully our next post will also include some pictures of our future house.