I will not eat an entire tub of Chocaleca in 1 week

Chocaleca = Nutella and Nutella = choco nutty goodnesss that you spread on a baguette or on just a knife when you're bored in your room... and I will not eat the whole thing in 1 week. That would be shameful! And I am curretnly roasting in the cybercafe because the ac isnt on and every other airway is closed off. I really think they are trying toget us all outofhere.

Yesterday was pretty fabulous. I went tot he beach with my family. Essentially I had no idea where I was in comparison to anything and we are just 5 minutes from the beach! It was fab. We went at qbout 4 so it wasnt terribly hot but hot enough. I guess I hadnt been to the Atlantic ocean for about 16 years and I loved it!Icould have played in thewaves all day long. They were huge and only got bigger the longer we stayed. we stayed about 3 hours Ihtink and I was in the water the entire time. There were some young men sitting on the rocks and playing the drums and men exercising, wrestling, doing pushups and alls ortsof calistetics all overthe place. And the children that I live with are so fun. They took a while towarm up tome but we had so muchfun at the beach. They call me "Tati" which is Auntie in Wolof and it is what they call all adults.

Besides the beach I qm still doing a lot of nothing. We watch a lot of music videos (mostly American) unfortunatley. They have a lot of commericals adverstidsing really ugly, gaudy furniture which I find to be reathe ramusing. And of course Coupe du Monde footbol. 3 games a day baby!

I am very excited for tomorrow. I begin my Wolof class tomorrow with the other SPAN students and my professor and am very excited to see them!It will be nice tohave some familiar faces around and get away from the house. I must say that Im going a bit stir crazy but that trip to the beachyesterday was just what i needed.

And my research... it is such a weird feeling being here and knowing thatI need to begin but honestly Im terrified to begin.I feel really really incompetent about my ability to carry it out in terms of language capability (both French and obviously Wolof) also in my cultural capabilities because interactions are clearly so different here. Im content to just keep on keeping on the way i am now and never begin my project... I suppose I doalso have a lot o freading material that I could be looking through but I gust cant bring myself to do it unfortunately.

To answer a couple other questions: how hot is hot? i dont ever really know the temp but id guess 80s and 90s during the day and maybe low 70s at night. There is usually a breeze, especially at night.

I am drinking water from the tap that I have treeated wiht iodine tablets. Thankfully I dont mind the taste of iodine. I buy a 1.5 L bottle of water once in a while though.

I haveno idea what the children outside my window were singing. I guess I didnt even pay attention to whether or not it was french orwolof.

Ididnt get to church yesterday because Iforgot to ask until Sqturday late night and thought that they wouldnt know even because they are Muslim and chruches are not common. I would like togo soon though.

While I would like to sound brave and say that I did, and contrary topopular belief, I did not eat the whole fish including the eyes. I barely ate all of the meat because I was slightly grossed out.

Correction: Patito (little duck) died not Pepito... what an embarrasing error! Youd never believe I got an A in Spanish making an error like that.

I probably wont be updating and emailing as often as previously becaus I actually start to work tomorrow... yay for work, boo for decreased communication

Ciao ciao (this is what they say to babies but I like it so I will say it to you all)
Moi