Boulsa Take 2

September 11, 2009

Well Boulsa is starting to get a little more livable. We both have finally gotten to talk to both of our parents. Neither the parents or us know what the heck is going on with the international calling right now, because we can call home without any problem, but home can't call us. Oh well, just have to figure out what is going on sometime to know when to call.
Becky is now 24! Yeah, I am starting to feel my age too. Tim and I have started to exercise here, and OMG it hurts. Whoever invented planks is a twisted sadist. Anyway, it is one easy way to make sure that we are awake and going in the mornings.
We are starting to have a pretty normal routine here. Tim gets water everyday with my bike. He is always breaking his bike. I will admit, it is entirely worth the inconvenience of only having one bike since I get to watch him ride a bike that is at least 5 inches to small for him :) I go down to the veggie ladies everyday and deal with there viscous badgering. I really enjoy listening to them say that their veggies are so much better than the lady's right next to them. They have even tried to entice me with generous cadeaux. I will admit, the free gifts do help. What can I say, I'm a sucker for extra tomatoes :)
Tim and I are starting to get adventurous with our cooking. This week I made village tacos out of canned corn beef, and I made a creamy tomato mushroom sauce from scratch! Tim made some awesome pizza sauce the other night that we put over village bread and some yummy fried rice. I also made some from scratch bruschetta today that Tim devoured.
We finally made it out to the lycée this week. Tim got to go in and see his lab. It is really nice by the way. There are 25 computers that are linked to a server. He found out that he will be teaching the following grade levels: 4em, 2er, and 1er. He is going to have 14 hours a week of teaching. I found out that I will be teaching two 5em classes and one 4em class. I am going to teach 13 hours a week. I am a little nervous about teaching 4em students since their French level is much higher.
We are starting to branch out a little more in the town. Tim and I have been taking daily walks around the town. We have come across all sorts of interesting things. One thing that I pretty much ran from was a butcher chopping up the head of a hog (EW!!!). We have found all sorts of local bars here in Boulsa; who would have thought? I have gotten pretty friendly with the post office people as I have picked up that archaic thing called writing letter?!?! Thus if you are an avid stamp collector and want me to write you a letter, I have oodles of time. Just shoot me an email sometime with your address and I'll write you a letter. Some of you have no choice and are going to receive endless amounts of letters from me ;)
We have started painting our house. All I can say is I know exactly why whitewash doesn't get used a whole lot anymore. I will say one thing in favor of whitewashing, it comes out of your clothes pretty easily. There is the coolest chemical reaction that happens when we add the water to the paint chuncks/rocks. Oh and if we add hot water, OMG the reaction is three times cooler. Maybe now I know why Em and I got in trouble in chem lab...
NOT SO FUNNY STORY TIME
Authored by Tim:
So Becky and I are going to kill one of the neighbor kids soon. This evening I was reading my book in the bedroom and Becky was under the hanger doing some laundry when a kid came into our house and started to look around. Not cool. I yelled at him when I noticed that he was there and he ran out the door. Becky chased him out of the courtyard. He ran off so we don't know where he went but there was another kid who had come into the courtyard at the same time and we talked to him, then his older brother and finally his uncle. The kids might have thought it was funny or not that big of a deal until the uncle started to scold them Then tonight we were greeting our neighbors and that came up with the kid's mom and the future didn't look bright for him or his friend. While we were talking, the topic of pets came up and we asked were we could find a puppy. They are going to help look for one for us. We both pretty pumped. The kids coming in unnoticed yet again has solidified our decision that getting a dog is a good idea, cause they are not friendly like in the States.