Back to Homestay

Today is my last day at Tubaniso, I won't be back here until Thursday, August 5th ... sigh. Goodbye internet, goodbye electricity, goodbye delicious food (this is the only place where it is safe to eat salad!) goodbye reliable cell phone service, and goodbye fellow PCTs (except for my 3 village mates). I'm going back into the darkness... haha well not really. While being at Tubaniso I've actually kind of missed my homestay village, which I thought wwas impossible. I miss the little kids and my crappy room, but I think what I miss the most is all of the down time. Here at Tubaniso we're constantly in some training class, there's always something to do. Also the majority of the classes are super boring, just like any normal job training. Every so often we do something fun, like have a panel of PCVs talk to us, but that's pretty rare.
One cool thing that I have been able to do at Tubaniso is watch movies. They have a projector here, so we have been able to watch Up as well as Hot Tub Time Machine. I love Up, and I thought that HTTM was pretty funny but definitely stupid. Also at Tubaniso is this vender dude who sells random things like candy and soda. This has been the only place I've been able to buy Coca Light (aka Diet Coke)! I crave Diet Coke, I'm basically having withdrawls. Everywhere I go I ask them if they have Coca Light, but they never do, it's very sad. Although it was really cool because when we first got to Tubaniso, one of my village mates bought me a can of coca light and sang happy birthday to me. It was an awesome present! I also bought a snickers bar today. It tasted a little weird because I think it was pretty old but it was still a good taste from home.
This Sunday (tomorrow) my older host sister is having her wedding celebration. I get to wear an outfit that they had made for me. I have no idea what is going to happen at the celebration, but I assume a lot of food and dancing. I just found out today that our LCFs (language and culture facilitator, so basically our Malian tutors who live in the homestay village with us) won't be at the wedding. Every Saturday they leave the homestay village to go to their actual homes and families in Bamako (they only live with us during the week). So this means that I'm not gonna have any idea what is going on at the wedding because there will be no one there to translate stuff into English or French. Oh well.
So anyway, lots of reading, I'm reading Pillars of the Earth (I think that's the title?), and lots of playing of Pokemon on my Gameboy Color. Oh I also watch an episode of the Office on my iPod almost everyday. Thank god for technology!