The Final Countdown

We have, thankfully, hit our final stretch in Tivaouane and PST. Everyone is just getting very run down and after this past week, with all the shuffleing back and forth between locations, I am all out of energy. I am in my language site till tuesday and then go back to Thies for swearing-in and then install, ie they move me to my permanent site. That is what I have ahead, now i guess I will give a quick recap of the past week or so. Time is a funny thing here in that i never really remember when or how long ago I have done things. Therefore, if I repeat myself just smile to yourself because that was a lovely habit of mine in the states too.
First off Partner workshop... it went pretty well. I had already met both of mine but I am pretty excited to work with Lamine, a conserateur because he seems pretty motivate. I also unfortunately learned how dismal my french really is, switching to wolof just gave me false confidience. I mean in comparison to wolof I am a scholar in french but I didn't realise how many simple things i still din't know till i had to use it at a higher lever for a few days. It was a good awakening because not I am just studying french in my freetime and wolof just in my classes. Mom, those notecards are being put to good use and hopefully when you come visit my french will be amazing from all my studying.
Now to more fun things, beach weekend....needless to say it was fun. I was, understandably, a little stressed since I organized it and it was at my final site. There are a lot of things that I can imagine going wrong when 61, mainly 20 somes, are allowed to have a little bit of freedom. I guess this just goes to show how great my stage really is, we all had lots of fun with out any big problems, injuries or illnesses. I do have the "problem" of everyone fully understanding how pretty my site is, so i had a little bit of razzing i had to deal with. I am just going to take my ancien's advice and fester about it on the beach. Speaking of I had a delightful swim right around sun up and decided that would take the place of running in my future workout plan. Also if anyone had any suggestions about natural stuff I can put in my hair to protect against the constant salt water it would be greatly appriciated. I want to keep my longer hair. Usually it is easier to put up but washing it is a pain so i am abuot two steps away frop chopping it off or getting dreads. Both of which will solve that problem but admitedly look very bad on me....so again any advice would be great.
well that is all for now, as usual more has happend but it is so hard to remember it all, and I really hate this french keyboard.
Also Shout out to my parents, who are awesome and sent me a lovely package, along with doing lots of other annoying errands for me. They really are the best parents ever and I feel so lucky they are back home to help me with things stateside. Love you guys.