I wish I could say that for the past month or two I have been extremely busy and productive, and thats the reason I havn't updated my blog. But I can't. Such is life. I went to America for Christmas (which was fabulous), and since then I've pretty much been hanging out at site a whole bunch! Work is still slow. Meh. Let's see...what else has happened? Oh, I know, this is kinda funny...

A couple days ago my sisters were doing serious cleaning, and that usually means that my host uncle is coming to town. I asked if he was, and they said that he and a bunch of other people were coming to town for a meeting. That seemed pretty normal, so I didnt really give it another thought. Then the first day all these "patron" (word we use for rich, posh people...and they really are. They show up in fancy new suv's and expensive clothes and stuff. Thats all fine and dandy, but its just kinda crazy seeing them roll in when the rest of the village lives in crumbling houses and are just straight up poor.) Anyway, they show up and my sisters were all fussing about getting ready for them and cooking special food. That also isnt a huge deal, because we always eat better when my uncle comes to town. Then the second day they were here was even crazier...everybody was in full on party mode. Kids were dressed in their nice clothes, all the neighbors were over helping with the cooking, and the atmosphere was just festive! So then I started asking some people what was going on, because clearly it was more than just a meeting.

Turns out the President of Senegal had asked people to pray for him, and that's what this 'meeting' was!!! There's an Islamic conference in Senegal in March, where leaders or reps of all the Muslim countries are meeting to discuss...whatever it is they need to discuss. So the Pres asked people to gather and pray for him to do well at this conference! Ha! Can you imagine if our president asked people to pray for him? Oh man. Ok I have 1 min left gotta go!