Regional Capital Visit

hey hey hey again. im using pretty much the slowest computer ever invented so you'll have to bear with spelling errors b/c im not going back to fix them. im in my regional capital right now for our once per month visit. there are 12 of us here and last night we had a really fun (some might say too much fun) st patties day party. no green beer here, but we made up for it will a lot of green costumes. im trying to think of how to sum up the last month (which was my first month alone in my hut in my village). it has been really hard not seeing all my new friends (which made our reunion very exciting!) i havent done a lot in the way of working yet, but work here involves a lot of social relationships so the first three months is really just building a foundation in that which means working a lot on my Malinke skills (the local lang in my village). my biggest news is that unfortunately my camera was stolen recently. i was in my second closest american neighbor's town and we were walking back from going to use the internet at the UNICEF building and i must have not zipped my purse up all the way because my camera wasnt in it when i got back to my friend's house (i had it at UNICEF i know b/c i took a pic of another friend there doing her hair up guinean style). anyway, it is pretty awful because i lost all the pictures i took after site visit and also the pictures of the men rethatching my roof (really cool process) and i also cant post any pics of my new and improved hut: i painted the exterior a brownish orange color and the doors black, the roof is all new and clean looking, and i painted the interior a hot pinkish red color which looks awesome with my bed spread i sewed by hand (a lot of time to spare here). another cool accomplishment im sort of proud of is my 30 mile bike ride to my friend Melissa's house (uphill both ways of course haha). i have to give a shout out to my dad who ive gotten two kick ass packages from , as well as Mimi (thank goodness im up to date with my pop culture now, im starving for news...and GOLDFISH hahah YUMMMMMM!!!) and Lisa who's V-day package really made my day:) i love all yall out there reading this and i miss you all!!!! well, i need to save time to check my email so until next month...