Happy Halloween from Labé!

So my time in Conakry was well spent, I managed to upload like 180+ pictures to my facebook (these aren't as small as the ones last time, sorry about that), and have a long online chat with Tim and several shorter chats with other people (Lyndsey, Pookie...). I only got a couple of hours of sleep, but it was worth it. The next morning I woke up early, had a talk with our doctor about being part of the communication chain for my nearby voluteer who developed 3 allergies (one pretty severe) to things here, apparently they decided to keep my village open to have someone near her "just in case". She and I had a good laugh about this, my fate was sealed when she stepped on a bee 3 months before I got to Guinea. We then got going to Labé only a bit behind schedule. The car ride was sort of uncomfortable, but very fast (only 7 hours....in a bush taxi it would have been closer to 10, or so I'm told).

The Fouta (another region of Guinea in the mountains/highlands) is beautiful. Everything here is very different from Basse Cote. The vegetation is much less tropical (kinda reminds me of Oregon a bit). The weather is much cooler (I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt), and the people are different somehow. Also, this city has more infrastructure than Boke (I think it's a bit bigger, but also since it's colder here people are better about having roofs and whole walls....logically this also leads down the path of electricity and running water). The volunteer house in this region is also really nice, it's actually a hotel for complicated bureaucratic reasons, and their office is very nice (I managed to grab a few books from their library to take back with me to site). I'm excited to spend Halloween here, and I'm excited to take part in my first meeting for Voluteer Action Commitee VAC - of which I'm the representative for my region (basse cote) from my training group. I'll write more about both these things when I get internet again (maybe Sunday in Conakry, if not next time I'm in Kamsar).

I'm not looking forward to a repeat bush-taxi trip to Conakry (especially since roads here are curvier and it's a longer trip), but I'm probably going to go alone again because nobody is headed back as soon as I am (I'm hoping to attend the meeting on Saturday and still be in my village to teach Monday morning...this may not happen since I may not be able to leave Labe until late Saturday (getting into Conakry at night...no), and I wouldn't be able to make it from here to my village in one day on Sunday. Well, worst case scenario I fall behind a bit with 9eme, but I figure I can just hang out at the school later in the week until someone doesn't show up to teach them, and I'll give my lecture then.

Alright, until next time!