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| My apology/ explanation to my village on the 1/4-1/3 portion of the wall that I was able to chalk board. |
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| We picked up my friend in his village, and a crowd of villagers led him to the car. The picture doesn't quite capture it. The villagers came up to the car and told another PCV in the car that they were not going to let us take him away. |
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| This about sums it up. |
Dan....from Phil's blog....
ReplyDelete"after tondi, there were many speeches, mostly short and to the point. I think that while most of the important nigerien officials who were invited to attend are always up for the glitz and glamour of an official function (let alone free cake), I can’t help but think they are less than interested in a ceremony for a bunch of kids they’ll never see again. they highlight for me was the speeches made by the trainees. each language group elected a someone to give a speech in the respective target language- one for hausa, one for zarma, and one for french, for good measure.
let’s just say it was pretty funny to see alison stand up to give the first speech in hausa and was rushed by about a dozen members of the niamey press corps, complete with microphones, tape recorders, cameras, and video equipment. I couldn’t help but laugh when alma, in the middle of giving her speech in french, pointed out that after nine weeks of hausa class, they asked her to speak in french. and, as can be expected, dan was chosen to give the zarma speech for us. as can also be expected, he didn’t let us down and inserted his own ‘dan-lexicon’ into the speech: “a sinda sikka!” he swears. ‘no doubt.’