The last 6 weeks have gone very quickly! May in France is a good month: 4 public holidays! Labour Day, Armistice Day, Ascension, & Pentecost Monday. Unfortunately the first 2 fell on Saturdays, but we still scored 2 short weeks. The bad news is that my computer died :(
But the good news is that the hard drive is OK, whi
ch means I can retrieve all my info from it :)
A few other students & I have been continuing to go to the retirement home, which has been good. Only 2 of us could go on Wednesday, but that turned out fine because only 1 of the residents was keen for a chat. She's pretty hard case; she told us that the important thing isn't just to talk French, it's to talk French well! So we tried to talk French well...
My 45 min presentation went well, thanks to the loan of a computer and a big screen TV on which to show it. One thing I learned while fact-finding about Burkina Faso is that 46% of its population are aged 15 or less. This week I also checked out the weather in the south-west of Burkina: it's the rainy season, which means that temperatures have dropped to somewh
ere in the 30s; I reckon I can handle that.
It's hard to believe, but there are just 3 weeks left of school, with exams from the 18th-22nd June. It looks like I'll be leaving France mid-July, after having a few weeks off for R&R. I posted the application for my visa, & 6 days later received my passport back good to go. No hassles at all. And this week I got all of the anti-malarials that I need: 12 boxes!
I'd better go because somebody made brownies & I don't want to miss out!
