Bonjour tout le monde. Once again I apologize for the long time without a blog post. I’ve been pretty busy recently. Things are back to normal in Gougoudje as school is in full swing. I am teaching 8th, 9th, and 10th grade math this year. I can already tell that it’s going to be a good year. Since my french has improved a lot, it’s much easier for me to write lessons and much easier for my students to understand them. I’m also doing a lot of after school review sessions which a good number of students are coming to. It’s been really cool to see them improving, petit à petit.

In school related news, the library project I’ve been working on is coming along well.We’ve got a building selected and the carpenter is building tables, chairs, and shelves. We also recently formed a library committee in Gougoudje to brainstorm ideas, make big decisions, and get different parts of the community involved. The grant we’ll be using to get books and other supplies will soon be posted on the PC website so if you want to help us out you’ll be able to donate online. I’m also part of a recently formed committee of volunteer librarians. We have all sorts of cool things going on including a mini book project and a potential 20000 books for Guinea from a group called Books for Africa. That grant should also soon be up on the web to receive donations. I recently started another map of Guinea in our elementary school and the kids teachers are pretty excited about it . We’re going to try to do a different map or other educational drawing in each classroom. Also, I can’t believe I almost forgot to mention our new school. It’s not completely new but three brand new classrooms will be opening up toward the end of this year. The classrooms we’re in now will be used for teacher housing. It’s a very exciting transformation. The library will also be opening around the same time because we’re using the old administrator’s office to house it.

Hmmm. Other stuff. I guess I am just super excited about my second year of service. There’s a lot more going on this year and I’m excited about the projects I’m involved with. People in Gougoudje have already started talking about how they don’t want me to leave. It makes me sad to think about leaving now but I’m happy that I’m sad about it if you know what I mean. I’ll leave you with some pics that I dug through my camera to find. I haven’t been doing a good job with the photo thing lately but I took one today of Geoff in a phone booth that we found in Kindia…

Just kidding. Pictures didn't work. Sorry : ( We'll be in Conakry for Thanksgiving so I should be able to get some pics up then. Also, Macklemore is excellent. See ya.