Remember, i'm eating for 7!

hey all, i hope all is well. so i haven't posted in a while because i've been waiting for something to happen that would be interesting to write on here. there were a couple of funny stories from my return to kedougou via public transport, but i'm not going to go there today. so wednesday these little bumps started forming in my butt region. thursday they were swollen and looked to be boils. i've gotten a few boils while in senegal so i know what they look like. friday they were really sore, so i started hot compresses, cuz those always helped with my other boils. the only difference was these really, really hurt. sometimes i was woken up at night because they were hurting so bad. well today while taking a shower, i was poking around at one of bumps that wasn't in a good spot. so while poking and squeezing, out popped this little white thing. at first it thought it was just a really gross blackhead type thing, then i took a closer look. it was ALIVE!!! it was a nasty little, white, fat LARVA!!!!!! i freaked out and yelled for my friend annie, the only other pcv at the kedougou house. i came running out in my towel and ran directly to the phone to call the PC medical officier. so one down, but i have 6 to go!! i'm so grossed out. but we figured out that i became infested with these vile little creatures from not letting my underwear completely dry out. i was still in Thies and we were leaving that saturday but it had been rainy and so after two days of hanging outside to dry my cloths weren't fully dry. so my lesson from all of this, always let your cloths fully dry after washing in Senegal.

another funny thing that happened, why my friend holly and i were making our way back to site after IST, we were sitting in this sept place(old ass station wagon, that is used for public transport in senegal) waiting to go. guess how the driver started the car?? just go ahead and think of the most absurd way to start a car. that's right, he pressed the Defrost Button!!!! plus also in that particular sept place, the middle windows didn't roll down, and holly and i were sitting in the very back. it was a very pleasant 7 hour car ride, along the worst road on the face of the earth. it is covered in potholes, i mean covered. holly and i renamed it the "Road to Hell." so that's about all the sitting i can stand for the moment, my larva aren't too happy with me for sitting for so long. so 'si allah jabbi' or 'if god accepts' these damn larva will be gone within the next day or two, or i'll be making my way to dakar to have them surgically removed!!! wont' that be a fun car ride.