Thanksgiving Photos

So even though I couldn't spend Thanksgiving with my family, I was still able to enjoy a pretty nice holiday. The second year volunteers worked really hard to put together an aswome meal for all of us. I guess they started a year ahead of time asking friends and family to send them various items like stove top stuffing mix and what not. Be prepared people, because requests will be coming.

In trying to make things more festive we decorated our tables in as close to fall colors as we could find. We even made place cards with everyones name on it. This was in hopes of getting us to mingle more between first and second year volunteers. We can be kinda clicky.

We couldn't afford a whole turkey, so we just bought some a couple of legs. That's the first thing followed by I don't remember what exactly, but it was all wonderful.

And these are the people I got to spend the holiday's with. Several of them don't live in my region they just came to spend the holiday's with us. Aren't we special :)

Pictures From Halloween

So I finally have internet connection for a bit so I thought I'd take the time to put up some pictures. As you can tell from the title these all come from last Halloween. I was a Power Ranger. Those of us who live in Alibori and who were around got together for a bit of a costume party. From left to right is Becca as Pebbles Flinstone, Me the Blue Power Ranger, Megan was Zebra, and Emily was an Eggplant. The back row was Audry a Zemijohn driver (motorcyle taxis in this country) and Kacci as a greek something or other, i forget what.



Part of the nights festivities consisted of bobbing for apples.

Proof that I'm Alive and well

Just a quick note to let you all know I am a live and well. The insects and other creepy crawlies haven't gotten to me yet. It's been a rough month, but I am trying to remain hopeful and keep a positive outlook.

The picture below was taken on New Years Eve so it's a bit old. But I wanted to show you what I looked like these days. I am a bit thinner and my hair is a bit longer but generally it's me. That afternoon we rang in the new year with the Chinese volunteers who live in Malanville with Meagan. They have a satilite dish so we were able to see the count down and know when it was 2008 in China. In this picture I was drinking tea and it reminds me of a tea advertisement.

That's all for now. More to come later. I miss you all a lot.

Until next time...

"Spider"

So earlier I regailed you all with my tale of the 10 legged spider. But I didn't have pictures then. Well here they are baby. I carried the sucker on a piece of paper out side and took these shots. This first one is how he looks on top.


Just so you can fully understand how creepy and gross this thing is I flipped him over so you could see what he looked like from that angle as well. Enjoy!

So what the hell is this thing? One of the guys here thought it might be a scorpion since they are common, but it doesn't have a tail. Can scorpions loose their tails?