I walked to the internet today; I usually ride my bike but it's nice and thought it would be fun to walk, gives more time to talk to people on the way by, which is always interesting. What I didn't expect is to have a herd of kids follow me all the way, about half a mile, walking a couple of steps behind me giggling every time I turned around to speak to them. Now that I arrived at the cyber cafe, they are sitting outside shouting in bonjour!s occasionally and giggling again. The girl who runs the cyber cafe just yelled out and ran them off. Kids are so funny. A couple of guys also offered to accompany me, and a girl rode by and called me madame, she must be a student. I don't feel like a madame, seeing as I am only 23, but at least I'm getting some respect.

Been keeping very busy with model school. I'm having a lot of fun teaching, now that I'm not afraid of the students anymore. I can understand their French almost all the time, and I think they understand me a lot too. They other day we talked about bones, and I brought in a skeleton (something i won't be able to do in my school where I will be teaching, we have no supplies like that there). They were very impressed, and loved knocking on it's head and pointing out all the different bones. When I asked them to name something that has calcium in it to keep your bones strong, the first response I got was Blue Band! which is a brand of butter here in Burkina, the only brand of butter I have seen, that somehow doesn't have to be refrigerated. I thought they would say milk or yogurt first, but at least they were know something with calcium in it.

A couple of days ago I received a package from home, in it were peanut butter m&m's, and of course a few other things (like tuna, which I'm desperately trying not to eat yet, but it's very tempting), but most importantly those. I opened the box in language class, so I shared (hesitantly, these are a precious commodity) with my fellow trainees and our teacher, who is Burkinabe. I assumed he would think they were delicious, but he popped one in his mouth, chewed once, and stopped with this face of complete shock. Probably like the first time I took a bite of tô, He said it was good, but he didn't take any more after that first one, so I think he wasn't impressed. I thought everyone would like peanut butter m&m's, oh how wrong I was. My host mom liked them a lot though, that was good to see.

My host dad and brother went away for the week a couple of days ago, so now it's just my host mom and me, which is pretty cool. We watch soap operas and the olympics; I wish it were more of the latter, but at least I get to watch a little bit of olympics. I bought some really pretty material for a dress and today my mom accompanied me to the tailor, so on wednesday I'll be able to pick up my dress for the swearing in ceremony. Not really sure what it's going to look like, hopefully it turns out ok.

The other day we worked in groups and split our classes into boys and girls and talked to them separately. We asked about their daily routine, then we asked them what they thought the others did for a daily routine. One girl said for part of the daily routine of the boys, that they slap the girls, The girls here do soo much freaking work, and the boys do a lot of "resting." When one of the boys was saying that they work really hard, one of the girls in class reached over and slapped him. It was hilarious, but of course out of line. It was unfortunate that another of the teachers in class threw her out, if it had been only me I probably would have turned a blind eye. The boy is a brat, I've had my moments of wanting to slap him too.

Only one week until I go to Ouaga for swearing in, then I finally get to move to my site and start being a real volunteer! I can't wait!