Another Day In Limbo

Well, today is my 3^rd maybe my 4^th day in limbo.  It is hard to tell because I’ve been just wandering around the regional house in an itinerant stupor the whole time and the days sort of bleed one into the other.  Why am I in limbo?  For a lot of reasons, but the biggest one being that I am currently incapable of returning to my village.  You see, this is rainy season.  Not only that, but it has been the wettest rainy season in a long time.  There is a stream that basically wraps around my whole village, and with all the flooding that has been going on, it would be impossible for me to cross it with all my bags and my bike.  I suppose I could swim across…

So you might ask, “so what do you do all day since you are unable to get to site?”  Not a whole lot.  I write blog posts, as I’m sure the sheer amount of new posts I’ve written makes evident.  I watch movies.  Like, a lot of movies.  Maybe I should start a movie critic blog to take up some time.  You could say that this is time for me to be productive, I could study Pular, or consider grants for projects, or learn to swing-dance or something.  This would require willpower though, and this has been completely sapped from me.

Maybe it’s just that I’m a lazy man and this gives me an excuse. 

How about an anecdote then?  So last night I was sleeping in the disco hut (the hut sleeping area) and I was the only one there.  I awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of commotion within the hut.  I look out of my bed and looming over me… is a donkey.  Yeah, there was a donkey in the middle of the hut.  That doesn’t really seem very scary, but when you are awoken and see a giant donkey right there, it’s kind of terrifying.  So I made to give an “ACHA!!!” (which is how we shoo animals), but it was combined by a frightened scream to more of an AAAAAAAAAAAHHHCHA!!!

So yeah, exciting stuff.  Anyway, if I don’t get back to village in a week I’m going to go hang out in Tambacounda.  Until then, I’m taking suggestions for skills I can learn.