summer

Quick post- I'll write more later, probably. No, definitely.
I am back in Burkina after going to Americaland to surprise my friend before her wedding. It was AMAZING: the wedding, seeing people, and eating everything I've been craving for the past year. I think, literally, everything. And then some.
Like I've been telling people, I haven't had any culture shock going and coming back and I think it's just because my mind can't process the idea of both of these incredibly disparate worlds existing. So I was in America mode, and now I'm back in Burkina mode. Maybe there'll be some problems when I go back to village. We'll see.
I just came back from a week of training and session-planning for the new group of volunteers coming this summer, since I'll be one of the trainers (basically for the month of July.) The first round of trainees comes in this week; they're the Secondary Education sector and therefore have two weeks more training than any of the other sectors. Arrival: Wednesday. There have been no new volunteers for an entire year (my group is still the most recent) and I have to say, we're all pretty excited about new people. So... welcome, new trainees!!! Good luck with staging and the first bit of time in country. I promise it'll be okay.