One Week Until Swear-In!

I have only one week until swear-in! Yay! I have been doing pretty much the same thing this past week: model school in the mornings and language and cross-cultural classes in the afternoons. Today I gave my second test, which was a little silly after only having a week of classes. However, we need to learn how to calculate grades, which is difficult to do with only one test. So everyone had to administer another test this week. For the rest of the week I have a pretty light workload, as tomorrow is test corrections and Friday is a party for the last day of model school. Then we leave for Ouaga this weekend to become real volunteers!

The highlight of last week was the cooking session, where we learned about cooking Burkina style. Each person was given 1000 CFA (the equivalent of 2 US dollars) and we had to prepare a full meal. My group decided to make banana bread, creamy garlic mashed potatoes, salad, and crepes for dessert. I was full and actually satisfied after that meal for the first time in weeks!

Bovard is very happy with our creations

Trying the banana bread batter that we put in our crepes with honey

Gwen and I finally meet!

Our very large and delicious salad!

The Salle de Profs at model school, as you can see everyone is working hard aka playing cards

I am ready for stage to be done, but as the days to swear-in get closer, I get a little more scared day by day to be all alone at site, but I think I can do it! I am ready!