As the title states, next monday will be my first day of actual school teaching. I'm starting to get a little nervous. Hopefully i'll be a good teacher and all that!

Lately i've just been working on getting myself set up and getting to know some people. My family is really nice and helpful and really wants me to consider myself one of the family. My house is holding up well. It's so big I still can't fill all the space. But today I bought curtains to try to dress it up a little! I am hooked up to the electricity now so I have a few lights and can charge my phone and ipod when i need to. It's a pretty sweet set up.

Yesterday I started my garden. So far i'm growing squash, cabbage, sweet peppers, and carrots. We'll see if anything actually grows! As I was working on it my dad came out there to help me weed and asked me if I had seen inside the little shed that's in my backyard, did i mention my backyard is huge? I said no I hadn't seen in the shed so he opened it and it's a freaking toilet on one side, like an actual toilet and a shower on the other with an actual shower head. I was in shock. Of course they don't work, I think they were set up as wishful thinking for the future of running water. But I'm still amazed that there's the potential!

I'm really enjoying Basse. It's like the best of both worlds. There's ice cream, beer, burgers, fries, electricity(sometimes) but it's much safer than the capital area. I lucked out on this one.

Over the last few days I've been biking a lot I biked about 75K, a good start i think. It felt so good to be moving my body again, now i want to ride my bike every day, i suppose that's a good thing huh? Anyway i've babbled enough for one day, I still miss home a lot and hope everyone is doing well!