Spring has sprung!
Last month I went to the West African mask festival in Dedougou with some other volunteers. To get to Dedougou I had to take this god awful bus. The bus was your standard 50 year old broken down charter bus with no AC of course packed to the brim. I was expecting to see a bunch of facemasks and vendors, but when they say masks they mean full body costumes! The day show was very interesting because they had this teepee shaped costume that was dancing around then they would flip it over and no one would be inside. Not only do we get cool masks but magic too. I was definitely pleased. They also sacrificed a chicken and spilled its blood all over the giant mask, so culturally this was very exciting. stuffed on the bus one of the really cool masks no one was inside of this dancing mask! Back at my site things are okay. I don’t feel that I am progressing as quickly as I should be with language or with project ideas. It has been really hard for me to find motiv...