Bonjour tout le monde, this will be a quick post to rekindle the flames and let everyone know that things are going well. Time is getting shorter and shorter before we all get sent off to our lonely (and free time heavy) posts. Everything is great in stage, having trouble dealing with too little time right now, as we have been busy with a dinner last night at the town hall with the mayor, getting back from our post visits last week, dealing with final french examinations, and preparing speeches in local languages for the swear-in ceremony next week.
A few top headlines, a loose panther was trapped and killed on my block last saturday 15 after I left from lunch. My family told me it was gris-gris (witchcraft) and that the panther was in fact a person in the form of the animal, roaming the streets to sek vengance upon a wrongdoer. The neighborhood ate the beast once it had been sufficiently slain with a coup-coup (machede).
The post visit was interesting, having the taxi break down on the way up during a huge storm, getting pulled into the next city by another car and some rope. Seeing my hobbit house, with 2 rooms, together smaller than my bedroom in Los Angeles, with a ceiling of 6.5 feet, and a good supply of dead animals and insect infestations. The 'sauna' has two small holes for windows and a latrine outside around the corner next to the pigeon holes (yes, three real pigeon holes. now you'll never know if I am using metaphors).
We are off to Grand-Popo for our last excursion as a group, which will be a nice relaxing break on the beach. Looking forward to that and our shoping day next week to buy all necessary tools for surviving my 2 year camping trip up north. Alright, the rest will have to be done in writing for the time being. Hope this post finds you all well and joyful! A la prochaine...
8 comments:
you should have taken our machete with you. then you could have slain the witch-panther yourself and would absorb their strength. i could be using your french expertise as i'm working on disney paris now, probably in glendale for the rest of the year as well. thats about all the news from me. glad to keep up with your trials and thoughts. peace. beneke
i hope you are learning a good amount of spells for life after PC. you are not missing much over here, except perhaps norma lynn crashing her mercedes into the front window (old news) and i still haven't used my free movie pass. love ya, and miss ya tons.
Wow babe, next two years are gonna be great!
I can't wait to spend a month with you in your insect infested, dead animal inhabited, hobbit house. I told you, it better be so boring that I get tired of lookin at that mug of yours! And you better keep any spider stories to yourself if you want me to visit.
Loud one in your ear! xo
" To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know" Jean-Jaques Rousseau
Keep enduring and learning, son! Love from the old dude in Minny.
Strikes and spares!
SPEECH! SPEECH! SPEECH!
I'm surprised that you didn't catch that panther yourself! Just don't ask where its spirit went...
Well the village that you'll be helping with it so lucky to have ya and we're all so proud of you back here - my family is in full support of ya.
So I guess it'd be frowned upon if you fed the panthers... hmm...
Yowza...I'm with Ariela that it might be better if you don't provide too many more details about the flora and fauna until our respective visits are over. I'm personally looking forward to finding a bat in my room upon waking up which I'm told by the health professionals means that rabies shots will have to begin immediately, even if there are no signs of being bitten. Ah well, I guess it could be worse (like being bitten...or eaten...by a trespassing panther). I'm glad Ariela is visiting before I am....
Hey eg message coming from ge. keep your bike locked at all times and have fun out there. Go Bruins...Lakers before 2012 for 1 Centurion.
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