April showers bring May...showers.

With the month of May come and gone, June has started off relatively quietly. Kankan is still the dustiest place around but the good news is the rain has started! Sort of. We get rain every few days, and sometimes it just threatens and does nothing. Scary, none the less.

The school year is coming to a close and I have been teaching less and less. Exams are happening in a few weeks and the students are studying, ou bien finishing up class and begging for better grades. There is something to be said about the grading system here, and for fear of getting severely worked up about it, I will spare you. But within the next month Kankan will clear out, literally. The students will all head home or to Conakry to spend their summer vacation. Everyone thinks I am leaving too. They all ask, 'And where will you go for vacation, America?' I guess they forgot I already went home for break.

I am impatiently awaiting the arrival of Jean and her cat Moose. Jean is the coordinator of this years Girls Conference and I am here to aid her when needed. Also, I haven't seen her since March. So, I am excited to see her and the new litter of kitties that Moose had just a week ago.

Fish Fete was in the month of May and I went to the one in Baro this year. It is the fish fete of all fish fetes. There was about a bazillion people there and so many white people I didn't know what to do! We took up resident at the Sous-Prefet's house (there is really no equivalent in english, he's like a sub-regional administrator that presides over a larger village and some smaller villages in the area. Really, its hard to explain). Anyway, we stayed there, and turns out I knew him from before. He is also a Kaba, so we hit it off right away. He and his wife fed us, introduced us to all the important people and basically we're like our adopted parents for the weekend. We has some first timers with us, so it was nice to share the experience with non-Hauters. Even if we did show up without fishing nets! Whoops!

I do have to announce that after my cat decided to use my entire house as a toilet (twice, in one day). She is no longer living in the house. She frolics around the compound and my neighborhood but she is banned from the house. She has made a few feeble attempts to return. But, mostly, I hear her crying from the roof, or outside. She is SO rude.

Other than that after a group of visitors came through Kankan life has been pretty quiet. Just sweltering in the heat and hoping everyday that it will rain! I did take some pictures of a ceremony that happened a few weeks ago. Complete with videos. I'll be sure to post them sometime. I can't promise when, but hopefully before my service is over!