SITE ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Today I found out where I will be spending the next two years of my life here in Guinea. It is a decent sized village called Gougoudje. It is in the Basse Cote region of Guinea but right on the border of the Fouta region which is mountainous with waterfalls and caves and possibly cooler than Dubreka where we're living at the moment. I don't know much about the actual village right now but I will be going on a site visit in a few weeks and I will definitely find out more then. I've heard that the biking is really great in the area around my village so I'm definitely looking forward to that. Training is going well. I'm at the back of the pack as far as French is concerned but I'm making a lot of progress and I can have more complex conversations with my host family now. I'm also going to try to start learning a little Pular which is the local language at my site. I fasted each day this week from sunrise to sunset for Ramadan but I decided to stop today because I've been feeling a little sluggish in language class. It was a good experience though and it helped me to better understand what my Guinean family is experiencing. I'm planning to fast during the last week of Ramadan as well. I'm going to wrap this post up now in case the internet shuts off. Here are a few more pictures that I couldn't upload before. The dinner picture is fried plantains, ground manioc, cucumbers, tomatoes, and fried fish. It was delicious! A biento!
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