It seems my new years resolution to keep up with my blog has gone out the window. I'm back safe and sound in Guinea. I'm sure some of you have read about the Coup that happened over christmas but all is calm for the moment. People seem surprisingly happy for the change, and there is noticeable differences... well trash for the most part. I got back to Conakry and was downtown and couldn't believe how clean the streets were and that there were actual places (pseudo-trashcans) to put the trash! But as everyone keeps saying On va voir (we'll see...).
Back in Kankan life at first was overwhelming, as I expected. Though I've been back for a bit and people are still asking me where their gifts from America are. We had the new group of volunteers roll through for a few days, doing their site visits. I will have new site mate who is also a business volunteer. He also happens to be from Philly. Other than that I'm back to business as usual. Me and my partner organization are back to giving trainings and we are in the process of looking to start some new ones. So we have a lot on our plate but I'm glad to be busy.
I did experience one of the grossest things ever, and if you have a weak stomach...I'd stop reading. I was so excited to see my cat when I got back, I thought she'd be as equally excited. I think she forgot who I was for a while... I finally got her home and she disappeared for a few days, used to life on her own I guess. She finally came back on monday night and was being super clingy, I thought maybe she finally missed me enough to come home. Boy was I wrong. I was so so tired and after almost eating bugs on two seperate occasions I decided to call it a night. I finally got to sleep and a few hours later there was all this commotion under my bed. Begrudgingly I went to get out of bed and as I went to step down, I saw it. At first it looked like someone had been massacred on my floor but there it was... a cat fetus. I guess I should've mentioned first that she was pregnant but that would've ruined everything, but she did in fact miscarry all over my floor. It was by far the grossest thing I have ever seen. So gross in fact I spent the next few minutes vomitting...and then I got to clean up. I threw the cat out of the house along with the remains, cleaned the heck out of everything else and got myself back in bed. Only then did I realize that there might be something under the bed because thats where all the noise had come from. I gave up and tried to go back to sleep, and try to get rid of the nausea before the morning. I woke up and was terrified to find more dead cats under the bed. I called my friend Cathleen and she was nice enough to come over and do the dirty work for me. Thankfully there was nothing but a bit of blood, which I will most definitely take over what I had found the night before.
