Worst Week Ever

Not to be confused with the hit tv show 'Best Week Ever!'. So i've had a pretty rough week; from children who won't stop crying, goats who won't stop bleeting, roosters who won't stop making that god awful noise they make, added to that not being able to sleep! I've been on a mad search to find this middle school girl and give her a scholorship for this school year, foiled many times by her just not being around and then after tracking her down and giving her the money and this certificate, being informed that she's pregrant and her family won't allow her to go to school this year, to having to take the money back from her to finally selecting another girl for the scholorship, all of this after biking 60k just to complete this one task! Thank god for the two guys who spoke english to help me cuz i got all stressed out and lost all ability to speak french or pulaar. my school garden project was scutinized by some douche bag teacher on some soap box about development, your kinda preaching to the choir buddy!!! All in all he told me it was a dumb idea because the soil is bad and the water the far away. First of all, soil isn't bad, my family grows all kinds of veggies and secondly it's not my fault this village was settled at the top of a mountain and then all the huts were built so far away from the two natural springs which are the villages only water sources. i told them that we had to at least try, because this village doesn't have anything because no one is willing to try anything partly cuz they're all pretty unmotivated. then i also got a lot of crap from them because the volunteer i replaced didn't do anything in the village, i couldn't really say anything except 'well i'm not him.' and nothing is really getting done about getting our health clinic up and running, everyone seems to be pretty complacent about the whole thing. my girls club will start soon, that will be lots of fun and i'm excited about that. today myself and another volunteer have a meeting at our radio station, we're looking to re-do our show and make some improvements. i'm becoming quit the local celebrity from this radio show, people are always commenting on it and not just in kedougou. i've also made a new senegalese friend, one who happens to have a fridge, yes that means cold water and she eats very well. allah jaraama(thank god) she likes to feed this toubaako!!!!! i ate at her house three times this past week, only bad part of it is her house is 9k from my village. oh well i'll make that trip cuz it means no crying children, a nice couch to lounge on and good food and cold water! i'm having all these ideas for stuff but just finding it hard to figure out a starting point. hopefully it will start coming to me. hope all is well back home, send me letters!!!!!

james