You wont believe your eyes....

Today is my first day with internet access and I feel like I have so much to write about but no energy to write about it. So I apologize for the details I'll be leaving out or the epic post that this will become.

First off, my new Senegalese name is Mymoona (Munas for short) Jallo. That's written phonetically because I don't know how to spell it. It's beautiful though, Mymoona is like name the older women will go by, and Munas is for teenagers but I like it when ppl say My moon a. It makes me feel special.

Last Sunday I found out I'll be speaking Pulaar du Nord which doesn't help me figure out where I'm going to be placed at all because the language is spoken everywhere the north and south...neat. Oh and it's spoken all the way through Chad so I'm golden to be a translator for any potential travelers! So I had my language course on Sunday then Monday afternoon I left to go live with a family that speaks Wolof, Pulaar and a few of them speak French. Let's just say I feel like no one in my family knows how to play charades because instead of acting out the words when i was confused they just said it louder and faster. Which was frustrating but really not that bad. I feel like if I can accomplish this I can do anything in life. It was actually a really great time! I was only there for 5 days and now I'm back in Thies for more training and some tests, I leave Wednesday for N'Guekov (where my family lives) and I'll stay there for 12 days which will be the longest consecutive time I'll stay with my family and then I come back to Thies again for more training.
My days in N'Guekov:
Wake up around 7:30 (more so around 7 because of the praying and my house is right in the middle of the market...p.s. i hate goats!!! they're so loud and obnoxious)
Get ready for the day go out to this lady's shed where she sells breakfast while being escorted by my family members and they buy me breakfast. Then my friend Samba (american name = paul) comes to pick me up and we walk to Sakir's house (where he's living in N'Guekov. Sakir is my teacher and he's staying with a host family too.) Then we have about a 3-4 hour language class. Go home take a nap eat lunch, back to Sakir's house. We all live within 5 minutes from each other. Then we go to the school and work on our garden. Come home, hang out with my fam try to do homework (and fail miserably), eat dinner, my fam watches tv and i just let my older sister read my pulaar book to me because she gets happy when she helps me! I don't really obtain anything but they just get so happy when they're helping me and it's better having her read something to me that has the english translation next to it (I've tried telling her that everything is in english too but i don't think they understand so i make her act it out so once they say that word i'll know what actions they'd do) It's better to have them read it to me than getting pulaar screamed at me and then french screamed at me and ppl saying "she doesn't understand anything!!" in french and me just laughing.

In between all of this Im chasing the kids that only speak wolof so we don't understand each other but they love me. Also, I've had 2 people ask me if I want their kid. My little niece Abbi is this lil spoiled girl who I adore!! She falls asleep in my lap at night. It's adorable. I love her! I was so sad I didn't get to say bye to her when I left for Thies. :(

SO everything is going really well and I'm having the time of my life! I really need to work on my French though! So now I'm gonna study and do some homework, but I've posted some pix and videos! I took awkward videos of some pc trainees I'm here with take a look! They're quite funny!

Jam tan.
Mymoona Jallo/Hadiel Mohamed