The hammer finally dropped. I got my first bout of illness. Basically I had the works, and I won’t go into detail but it was not pretty. Then, once I got over my stomach issues I came down with a cold. It’s 115 degrees and I have a cold. C’est ma vie. But I’m okay, nothing to be worried about…more of an inconvenience actually.
Saturday was our first language placement exam, I don’t know how I did yet but my friend Phoebe said our teacher Aicha said everyone in our class (Me, Eric and Phoebs) did pretty well. Yay. The reason they do the exam at all is to break us up into new language classes for language immersion. *Update: I placed in level 3, I only need to get to level 5 to pass so I’m feeling alright.
Language immersion is supposedly going to be a super intense 2 weeks of language classes where we live in a village with only our class of 3 or 4, and our teacher. English is bu (dead) and Zarma reins as king. For some reason I’m not extremely optimistic about this.
What I am happy about however is discovering the American Rec. Center in Niemay where they have cable television with ESPN and milkshakes (Heaven). Unfortunately, I will probably only be able to frequent this paradise no more than once every month or two. It’s just comforting knowing that it’s there because every time I’ve had internet it either was super slow, really spotty, or just did not work on my computer at all so It’s been difficult to know how my teams are doing. (I cried here for the first time with happiness when I got a letter from matt saying that the browns beat the saints)
Sorry about not getting up pictures. I have bad internets luck so have patience. Kala suuru. (This is something I tell myself about 20 times a day and am not good with to begin) It took me like two hours to upload my profile picture a couple weeks ago.
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