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Homeless in Africa

  • Aug. 29th, 2007 at 2:26 PM
So this entry is going to have a lot of errors and i'm sorry about that but the keyboard sucks horribly and i'm pressed for time...Gambian internet cafes are an experience.
By the title you can probably tell i'll had an interesting last few days huh? To start with when we finally got to my site on Sunday night, completely exhausted for 13hrs in a car on the horrible roads, my house was in not so good shape. There were lots of frogs, crickets, lizards, and many pools of water, my own little swamp environment. \i didn't really complain too much \i was too tired, so we unloaded my stuff and they took off to take the next girl to her site. About an hour the driver/maintanence man showed up again and said pack your stuff up it's time to go you can't stay here it's uninhabitable. \of course at this point \i had decided to completely empty my two huge trunks in order to re-organize. lol so \i threw stuff in the trunks, bags, and whatever else \i could find in five minutes and off we went. \i stayed the night at the basse transit house that night. The next day \i just kind of hung around waiting to find out if they could find a better house for me.
\monday came and went and still no luck but I started thinking about being proactive about things. \i said from the start \i wnted to be in a bigger town and Basse is a bigger town. So since \i didn't have a house if i found a house and a school that would let me teach they would probably let me stay right? So that's what \i did with the help of my fellow volunteers. We found a house and a job teaching 10th grade science here in Basse. So all the stuff \i said and pictures \i put up about Suduwol doesn't matter because \i'm now in Basse!
But my house here is great it's two of the huts like the Suduwol house connected with a middle lobby thing. \it's huge and \idon't know what to do with all the space! Anyway my time is about to run out so i better get this posted but that's for all your responses, things are looking up here!

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(Anonymous) wrote:
Aug. 30th, 2007 03:45 am (UTC)
Way to take things into your own hands. Does that mean you'll have electricity and running water? Sounds like you got a good deal out of the situation. Take care of yourself out there.

-mike
(Anonymous) wrote:
Sep. 5th, 2007 03:19 am (UTC)
YOU GO GIRL!!
Oh Courtney, you don't know how proud it makes us to know you can take care of yourself and just do it. You are a special lady. A huge loss for Suduwol and yea Basse!! We will be mailing a package by the end of the week. Love Gayle and DAD

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