New Things
Over the past two days I have been listening to the newish Tori album. When I acquired it, in America, I did not think anything of it, but now I am finding it quite good. I highly recommend!!!
Patrick is currently taking his GRE test. Peace Corps is nice enough to set-up a testing center for the volunteers who want to take the test. If they had not done so it would have cost something like $300 to establish one. Patrick has been studying for the test for two and a half months. Of course he does not feel very confident about the whole thing, but I think he might just do well. He is, after all, our ticket out of this joint three months early. Grad school, Grad school, Grad school!!!!
I am going to go to the pool where I will try to even-out my amazing farmer's tan. Oh wait, who am I kidding? The sun is not unlike the intense heat of hell and to rest in its rays for a long duration is tantamount to suicide. I will be sitting in the shade reading my book. But before I venture to the pool I have to get to the bank. There are no ATM machines in this country so everything is old school. You must write a check to yourself and then cash it at the bank. Sometimes I like it because it makes me think of F. Scott Fitzgerald novels; the characters are always cashing checks to keep the party going, but most times it is just a mad house. Nigeriens have no sense of lining-up. They just cluster around the counter.
Patrick is currently taking his GRE test. Peace Corps is nice enough to set-up a testing center for the volunteers who want to take the test. If they had not done so it would have cost something like $300 to establish one. Patrick has been studying for the test for two and a half months. Of course he does not feel very confident about the whole thing, but I think he might just do well. He is, after all, our ticket out of this joint three months early. Grad school, Grad school, Grad school!!!!
I am going to go to the pool where I will try to even-out my amazing farmer's tan. Oh wait, who am I kidding? The sun is not unlike the intense heat of hell and to rest in its rays for a long duration is tantamount to suicide. I will be sitting in the shade reading my book. But before I venture to the pool I have to get to the bank. There are no ATM machines in this country so everything is old school. You must write a check to yourself and then cash it at the bank. Sometimes I like it because it makes me think of F. Scott Fitzgerald novels; the characters are always cashing checks to keep the party going, but most times it is just a mad house. Nigeriens have no sense of lining-up. They just cluster around the counter.
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