Work Satisfaction

Today is I believe July 21. 

This week we who are working on the book-mobile are seeing the end of project. I feel satisfied that we have completed something that will be useful this year. We are writing up hundreds of catalogue cards this week and we have worked to set up a system that will work here.  The book-mobile serves 10 villages and I from what we have seen here is very much appreciated. The children and some adults of the neighborhood are out asking for books every time we work outside in the van. We put out books that could not work for the library and they were all gone in very short order.

Yesterday I helped one of the American volunteers (Goshan College) do a couple interviews of girls with 10,000 Filles. The two girls, 15 and 17, and going into grades 9 and 10 respectively (the lycee), both expressed that the extra help the organization was giving them was made a big difference to their success. These two girls both have families who support their going to school which is by far, from what I have seen and heard, the experience of the majority of girls. 

Hawa and Khadiya both want to continue: one wants to be a journalist and the other wants to be a colonol in the military like her father. 

I was the translater between Elisha and the girls (French /English) - a role I often have here. I love it.

I am beginning to catch on to some of what is discussed in my home in Wolof.. it helps that French words are thrown in and that I am observatrice and always looking for the sense of conversations. I have been watching my share of Wolof sitcoms.

All is well.