Friday, November 10, 2006

So I figure since I actually have access to the internet I should update again.
Nothing new is happening but I miss you all. I hope that everyone got my email with my address, and I am hopefully going to get a cell phone super soon.
Keep checking this site and see how its going.
LOVE
Tami

Thursday, November 09, 2006

I'M ALIVE
Hey guys! Sorry that it has taken me forever to update this thing but its been kind of a challenge to use the internet around me.
But I found out my post and just spent a week there. I'm going to be living in Koussountou a 1000 person village in the middle of the country near Benin (you might be able to find Tchamba on the map - I'm about 30 km away from there). I have no electricty and get my water from a well. So far my house isn't done yet but I'll be living in a compound with my homologue (the Togolese guy that I'll be working with). Slowly but surely I'm learning French, and I think I'll get the hang of it mostly before I go to post for good in December. There is no internet in my village so I prob wont be updating or checking my email more than once a month. There isn't a post office either but that doesn't mean that I wont continue to send mail. If you haven't gotten something yet its probably because I don't have your address.
I hope that you all know that I think about you all the time and I love you all and miss you tons but things are mostly going well. If nothing else I'll come back in two years being a total bad ass chick who is able to handle way more than you ever thought I could.
PLEASE WRITE ME SOON!
I gotta go but I love you all.
P.S. Way to go in the election guys! You are making all of us proud!

LOVE LOVE LOVE
Tami P