Just came back from seeing my site. It was a great experience getting to see where I will be living for the next two years. It is a really small village with about 140 people living there. It is surrounded by fields of corn, cotten, upland rice, peanuts and sorghum. My site is close enough to the city were I can just bike in if I want and yet still be out in the bush. It is a pretty sweet location. There is a hut that I will be staying at with a small backyard. I can't wait to get my hands dirty when I start my garden and demo garden in the front. There are a few projects that I would love to do there like starting a rain water catchment system for the village because they only have one really deep well. It takes a lot of work for them to pull water, so hopefully if we get some more sources of water they will be willing to start more home gardens. The Peace Corps Volunteer that is there now was very helpful. She was able to introduce me to people and show me around. I have big shoes to fill considering the amount of work that she had done with her village and her family it seems like it is going to be hard to full fill her achievements.
We went on a bike trip to a master gardener site near my village. It was a wonderful bike ride with green everywhere and some pretty amazing termite mounds. The village that the master gardener site is pretty patron with cement beds outside a clay oven and there very own well in the compound. The huts were covered in squash vines and it was surrounded by fields and fruit orchards. The only down side is that the temperature is really hot. Tambacunda is known for how hot it is. Let me tell you I was sweating in places I normally don't sweat at until I got here, lol. All in all it has been a pretty good week. We are going to be going back to our home stay tomorrow and I can't wait to see them!
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