Week Two!!!!!

Week Two!

9/16/2014

I started to write a description of all I've done the past week and realized thats not something I really feel like doing every week I'm here! No one wants to know the details of my weeks!

I'm still not sure how to go about this whole blogging thing. But here is a list of funny/interesting things I've done this week.

Went to see "the table" of Mahanoro which is a rock formation by the ocean that was BEAUTIFUL. I'll have to get a picture of it before I leave! I still don't like carrying my phone around but I'm sure someday in the next two years I'll have a camera day.

Saw a group of (maybe) french people who looked like wilderness explorers roaming the street complete with nerdy glasses hiking boots and backpacks. My friend nudged me and said (in Malagasy) "the one in red....your boyfriend?" It was so fun to joke around and was one of the few jokes I actually understood right away.

Ate the most delicious meal of shrimp, potato salad, beans (and of course rice) at my friend's families house. At the lunch, I became aware that there is a Muslim community and mosque in Mahanoro that his family is a part of. I thought I was hearing the call for prayer and now I can put a place to the sound.

Kicked ass in many a game of dominoes.

My friends wanted to "help" me make food. Which meant laugh at how weirdly I do everything. They kept helping me with little things and teaching me how to do things I already knew. I was laughing that I knew how to make food...when I spilled my rice all over the floor and proved I really don't know what I'm doing.

Explaining to my friends that I don't need a boyfriend...which was apparently hilarious.

Went to Church on Sunday! Either I've done a fantastic job at integrating or they said something about my work here at Church because I've had less people say "bonjour" to me and more people either say "Good Morning/Afternoon" or "Akory!" instead!

Watched the Mahanoro vs. Votamangy (not sure about spelling on that one) soccer game. It reminded me so much of watching soccer games in highschool and filming games in college. It made me really think about how much fun it would be to assistant coach cross country at some point in my life.

Saw a CHAMELEON! It was on a tree in my friend's brother's yard just hanging out. They are strangly calm animals. A little girl came to grab it from the tree (still not sure why) and I actually saw it change colors at it fell to the ground and was put on a stick. Not dramatically, but it definately changed.