Kickin' it in Labe!

Hey friends, family, and other friends (if you don't feel that you fell into either of the first catagories, you definitely fall into this third!),

It's good to be able to contact you again!  Labe has internet, hay-o!  (Well no, it doesn't, so we'll wait...)

I've decided to start journalling my blogs, so they'll come up in chuncks at a time.  (i.e. you'll have a fair amount of reading once a month, but I'll post them in seperate posts, so if you don't want to read them all or all at once, it won't look like you have to. 

A general post though, life at site is great (for the most part)!  I have some flooding issues, but I'm planning on searching for some solutions when I get back.  Other than that, I'm fed everyday and I have students to teach!  What more could a volunteer ask for?

I just finally have aquired students however.  They should have been there (along with all the teachers) on the 3rd of October; it was this week finally that we had a fully functioning week of school.  Class sizes are small for the moment (0-15), especially compaired to my commrades (>150 per class).  I have the keys to the school, and thus am there everyday all day.  Given that I don't have much else to do, it's not really a problem. 

Here's a sample of my classrooms!  I'll post more about them later and with more pictures and such (although a majority will probably be on facebook).

P.S. To get to Labe took a taxi with Richard from Telimele from 8:30am to 3:30pm across roads, not roads, up and down mountains, across a river on a manually powered fairy with ten other people, two baby chickens and a rooster on the roof.  Suprisingly though, there was no apprentace on the roof of the taxi?! Unlike the taxi that passed us while we were fixing our wheels/axel which had three people on the roof.  Beautiful site seeing, and nice driving for the last 20k on paved road into Labe!

The things I go through to send you,
My love and peace from Guinea,
Mr Ge-offrey