to the village. Tomorrow morning it will be out on the road
pedaling at 5:30 a.m. before the big city wakes up. It takes
about 45 minutes or so to get from where I am staying to the
road that leads to the village. I will bike back and it's about
a 6 hour total excursion with water and social stops along the way.
As a volunteer in a village the work is always not quite so
defined or constant. Thinking back over this first year ...
it was a pretty lucky time on the project front.
There were girls soccer, English club, sports and a theater
group active at our village college (middle school) during
the last scholastic year. This year there is none of that
because none of that exists. The reasons being that the
theater teacher has transferred to another school. The sports
teacher, also girls soccer coach, is in limbo at the moment
as to whether he will be transferred to another school or not.
The English club teacher has received new responsibilities
and that has a chance to maybe be restarted but it's a not sure.
And that's why it's always a dynamic situation as a volunteer.
It's that feast or famine syndrome.
The picture was taken at the last year's theater performance.
The girl in the back is named Zalissa and she was in
the performing group and also the goalie for our girls
soccer team. Now, she's married and living here in
Ouagadougou somewhere.
The girl in the front is a spectator. And the timing of
the picture was about an hour before the performance.
So, what was going on is not and it's about having the
dynamic mind and imagination and searching for
other openings.
It's the sex education/teenage pregnancy activity that's
taking the main billing on work.
Again, it's always dynamic and being patient. That's
the nature of this gig.
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