So I figure I'm gonna do my best to get this blog thing rolling pretty regularly now. By the way if there are loads of typos don't hate...It's a french keyboard and I don't have the time or energy to edit this stuff.

Well today is my 3 week anniversary here, it's like the time here is on overdrive. I can honestly say I don't like that at all. I want to be able to slow down time while I am here, but keep it going at regular speed for all those crazies that miss me. I hope your break from me is going well, you all deserve it.

So let me give a quick rundown of my work; L'Espoirs de Demain is essentially a mini-infirmary, barber shop(with straight razorblades), daycare, daara to daara medical team, community center, and cafeteria (on Friday afternoons we feed the kids). The medical aspect of things is really sad. No time to change gloves between kids, minimal supplies, minimal budget, and that's compounded with an even bigger population to treat. We do the best that we can with what we got. Touba, the gentleman that runs it, he is a good man in my eyes and the services we provide are surely better than nothing.

It's hard as shit to turn a kid away at a daara because we ran out of supplies in our kit. C'est les vies des Talibes. These kids are tougher than anyone I have ever met, and what they go through would be hell for anyone in the western part of the world (I would argue that they have some of the hardest lives in the eastern part as well). Just keep doing what I can to make them laugh, smile, and feel better while I am here.

I do have to say that last night couldn't have been put together more perfectly by her...I sat on the veranda of my work listening to a melange of laughter and words spoken in no less than four different languages. Men, women, and children playing cards and drinking tea communally forgetting that they are Toubab or the person next to them is a Negre. The harmattan blowing dust into the air, while the sun provided a glow that made the whole scene ethereal. As I sat there and took in all that I could, I really couldn't help but believe that this is the way life should be...

I WILL BE GETTING PICTURES UP TOMORROW FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE BEEN ASKING...INSHA'ALLAH that is...