Hi everyone, can you all believe it I am on the downward slope. Work is picking up and I am feeling productive and have direction. Here is a picture of one of the projects I did in village with my women's association. I did a Neem Cream training. Neem Cream can be made with local products and is inexpensive. It is also a misquito repellant and therefore hopefully will help decrease the amount of malaria in Burkina Faso and also the women can make some money to support their families. We also talked about Moringa which is a tree here in Burkina. The leaves contain a LOT of vitamins which are often hard to get here. Almost everyone got a tree! 
So rainy season might be coming to an end however that doesn't mean that the storms are getting weaker... Infact I think they might have gotten stronger and I am not the only one who has suffered from these last few BIG storms. Houses have fallen, businesses flooded and the market distroyed. I had only minor damage with my hanger falling. And It has already been put back up again.
PEANUT UPDATE:
Well, first I did all the weeding myself. My field is pretty large so I have to admit I am proud that I did it myself. And it made me think of grandma M still out in her garden weeding and all I can say is wow..
As for the actual cultivating, I tried to do it myself... but it was too much to do and I needed to go to Ouagadougou because of a meeting... hence my POST. So I bought some beans and rice and two women came and helped me and we after afterwards.In on of my last posts I mentioned that the holy month of Kareem started. Well it has now finished so we celebrated the Fete of Ramadan. It was similar to last year however this will be my last time celebrating it in my village. This year I got an outfit made and went to the morning prayer. Simply, I wanted to see what everyone does. When I was there watching many people where like... come and pray. I don't know the movements so I was a little scared HOWEVER I have since talked to my Major who is muslim.
I asked if he would be willing to explain how they pray SO hopefully one Friday I will go and pray at the mosque before I leave. I also got henna done for the fete. My Majors wife's sister did it. She did a really good job and everyone commented on how pretty it was.
I asked if he would be willing to explain how they pray SO hopefully one Friday I will go and pray at the mosque before I leave. I also got henna done for the fete. My Majors wife's sister did it. She did a really good job and everyone commented on how pretty it was.
Lastly I have some BIG news. So nine months ago I asked for a cat... and I asked for a male cat. Then one day a friend of my said that my cat looks like she is pregnant... I said NO... it's a boy it's not pregnant. I then had my neighborhood vet come over and he was like.. YUP it's a girl. And now I have 3 adorable kittens! Mom is doing great and being a great mom to her kittens!
