Bent

I'm sick, it's a recent development and shall fade soon enough.

Two weeks ago there was a camp for young girls 7th and 8th and their teacher. I was able to help train the teachers in lesson plans that use alternative techniques to pull out creative thinking and use multiple intelligences. The camp was great fun, it was covered by GRTS the Gambian television station and it was obvious that each of us were part of something much larger. Some of those girls left their village for the first time. They learned about AIDS, life choices, leadership, teamwork, drugs, alcohol, and pregnancy. I am proud that I was a part of it.

We just attended a conference that included little to nothing that will effect Kristy or I. It was still exciting to see the beginnings of now policies to make PCTG a well oiled machine.

We covered a recent happening dubbed "The Philip Incident" that is making some of our new policies necessary. There are some unspoken pieces here and if I told you, I'd have to kill you, or you'd be bored outta your skulls and wish I would have omitted it. Regardless, I'm not saying anything about it until I firmly home and jobless.

Now that it's over we will be returning to site until the Close of Service (COS) Conference that will take place early next month. This is going to be just like our conference last year but without all that lovely evacuation confusion. We are going to get to learn how not to be the people we are now and how to be close to the people we were when we got here. We are broken Americans, and there is gonna be some things that we will do to embarrass those around us, more then we would normally have in America. You'll see and I will bring this up again, inshalla.

What it does mean though is that our trip home is planned and we are filling in the fine details. I can for sure say that we will be boarding a cruise that will take at least 2 weeks where will celebrate our anniversary and Kristy's birthday. I'll talk about that more at a later time.