QUICK QUICK UPDATE

My new site is amazing. It is right on the Niger River! There are two very large gardens and Eaux et Poissons department (I'm going to see if I can work with the man that works there...He was pretty nice). My homologue was amazing. She speaks French and Bambara. I was so nervous the whole week that I spoke Franbara. It was still great. Nyaminakaw (the people of Nyamina) are very funny and diverse. I am going to have a great time there. As a welcoming/come back here later present they presented me with 4 live guinea fowl and dozens of eggs. A group of friends and I got to have them killed and we plucked them and made the best chicken salad Mali has ever seen!

Sorry this is short.

I'm headed back to Kabe in a few days for twenty more days so there won't be any updates there.

Hope all is well back home. Ive been able to keep up with the olympics a tiny tiny bit.

Love you miss you!