Not so long awaited..... :P

Hi everyone! Sorry that we were not able to post a blog last week. The cyber cafe that we usually us was closed all week due to someone having a baby. Don't worry though, we posted the blog that we wrote for last week anyway :)
Its official, we only have two more weeks left of training! I have am starting to tell everyone how many days we have left every morning. This may sound silly but I have every intention of being extremely lazy that first week at site. I'm even thinking about sleeping in until 7 a.m. Holy cow! Yep we have sad sad little lives here. We wake up at 5 a.m. and are watching the clock by 7 so that we can go to bed by 8 p.m. I know my Mom is laughing her butt of reading this especially since I always made fun of her for falling asleep while she was watching T.V.
Model school is more than half way over. I can honestly say that for me, model school has really made my French progress a lot. I now reprimand children for not following directions or tease them when they do not listen to the question that I ask and give me these horrible replies. I am even starting to not follow word for word what is in the book. Sure there are times when the kids just look at me like I'm an idiot when I'm talking, but I figure I'm doing darn good for only having started to learn the language 8 weeks ago :) Tim is a goof. He hates lesson planning so he rarely does it at all. More often than not, he is asking me what he should teach the students to do that day while we are eating breakfast. I'm glad he is so laid back. If I did something like that...oh I can't even imagine it. I love have plans and orderly schedules. Yes I admit I am extremely anal, maybe even slightly OCD :)
Other important or interesting things that are going on over here: Wednesday all of the secondary education volunteers biked out to Bogoya Z. The 7k ride was amazing. I will admit I was getting slightly irritated with our group of riders. Ok story time: So there are 16 SE volunteers and we had to ride out to the GEE village training site. We broke up into four groups. Each of the groups had people in them that had been to village before and said they knew the way there. Well that wasn't quite the case for my group. So the person who had been to village and was leading the group couldn't remember where the road was that lead out of our village to get to Bogoya. So our group leader spent approximately 20 minutes looking for the road that they were sure they would eventually find. Meanwhile I am starting to get a little testy because we are going to be late, and I detest being late to anything. Well as luck would have it, she did eventually find the road that lead to Bogoya. We arrived about 15 minutes late. I love the look Tim gave me when we finally got to the village. It definitely implied pleased don't kill anyone and HI. The day didn't get a lot better after that either. It was so hot that day and there was only one 5 gallon bucket water filter for over 45 people. So that may not seem like a big deal to you right now, but I can explain. The filters are somewhat slow especially if it is not a new filter. After the water is finally through the filter, you must at bleach and then wait an addition 15 minutes before drinking. Yeah not the wisest thing to only have one filter, especially when the filter wasn't working well at all and caused us not to have water for a couple of hours until an LCF went back to ECLA and got another water filter. All Tim and I are going to say about this is TIA (This Is Africa).
Oh some other interesting news to tell you all about; we did our committee voting this past Wednesday too. So there are several groups/committees that you can be voted onto here in the PC BF. Tim volunteered to be on the IT group and I was voted in as the SE representative for VAC. This means that we both go to Ouaga once every three months for a quarterly meeting. We are both pretty excited about being on each committee. The IT committee is working on expanding sharepoint so that it can be accessed from any computer in BF. VAC is more or less the student council of PC BF.