Quick Quick Quick Blitz

Just a quick note with a couple pictures. I think I already said that we had Pelele’s birthday celebration which was super fun and crazy. There’s a very blurry picture of me with some of the kids and Pelele sitting on my lap. Right now I’m only in for one night, bringing a group of first year College students in from Matameye to visit the professional schools and meet with some professional women in Zinder. Hopefully its going well when I post this (I’m writing right now from Matameye the eve of…) But I’m excited and I’ll put up other pictures later. The picture of the students framed by the thatch, is actually taken through the back of their classroom (most sixieme students are in classes made of thatch walls instead of cement since the population is just growing to quickly to make classrooms quick enough, on top of the lack of money do so even if they had the time). But the two girls on the bottom left are Firdaoussi and Zouleye who are (hopefully) with me in Zinder. Sweethearts.

Another picture is of a student doing the long jump in the end of the year sports exam, the girls in all their track suits are… Well, the end of the year sports exams are sort of a field day and people like getting decked out in the flyest gear they can find. So that’s why they all are sporting their slick outfits.

Finally, yesterday I went to Kantche where some other volunteers were having a soccer match. A girl from each of the two teams had been in Zinder with us a while back when we did the Young Girls’ Conference. And since I knew they were coming to Kantche (just 15km away) I grabbed the girl that I had brought to Matameye and they had a mini reunion. It was awesome and super sweet to see how excited they all were to see each other.

Otherwise, life is good. I have SO LITTLE time left its terrifying. After I get back from Zinder we (me and some other peace corps girls from surrounding region) are doing a five day young women’s health and income generation fair. Then I’m racing to Niamey for one week for our Close of Service Conference. Sprinting back to Matameye for about 3 more weeks, saying goodbyes (oh my god, I just felt a pang even writing that), back to Niamey to actually close my service and then home.

My ETA for New York is July 17th. I expect you there. And you can expect me to be an emotional mess.

PS my time on the internet is super limited with the girls waiting for me at our hostel, so if any show up at all it wont be all the pictures I mentioned, and I’ll try and get them up soon… Damn, dont think any went through... i'll try and get them up later... rrrrr