Abby: Just spent the last hour convincing Gambians that there are no roads in the sky for planes to travel on...I wish I'd made up an elaborate lie about the mechanisms and history of skyways.
Trish: I've started talking to the frogs in my backyard
Abby: Race. First person to text me back with translation of "big African trouser" gets a cold coke the next time we are in Kombo
Jessica: Some of the topics grouped together in the English course syllable my principal gave me: space travel, bumsters, and sports.
Jessica: I cant wait to teach about the former footballer who becomes a prostitute on mars.
Mr. Gomez (my counterpart): Hi, how was your trip to the peace corps office. I will not be able to make it tomorrow becos I was to relax and take my drugs, we will get in touch, bye for now
Abby: Got scratchy finger from my neighbor and colleague...for real??
[A few days later...]
Abby:Dude, the scratchy finger guy came over with a sure fire way for me to accept his advances. He asked why my big stomach was going away. Oh. my. god.
Jay: A hilarious turn of events occurred when I meant to say "I served lunch for peace corps" and it came out "I served peace corps for lunch"
Samantha: I can feel my skin burning already. I must be getting close to the church...
Samantha: Church was church-like. I'm not saved, maybe next time.
Trish: Got invited to a wedding, the man's wife had come. So I went...she's a Swiss toubab! The whole party circled up when we met. I think it blew their minds that 2 toubabs from toubabadoo couldn't speak to each-other!
Mr. Gomez: Hi! How is the cool
Abby: PMS at home means Chipotle and dairy queen. PMS in Kombo means ice cream and oreos. PMS in village means and entire can of baked beans.
Samantha: New costume idea! Zombie apparentie...I fell off the top of the gelly and was then run over by a donkey cart! Thoughts?
Samantha: and I figure if I get enough I can start trying to collect passe from everyone in the form of alcohol...
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Abby: Handwriting practice today featured writing this sentence ten times: I am tall and black.
Jay: Right now I am reading a feminine oriented mystery. Dry times call for desperate measures!
Abby: I got a package from my aunt yesterday that was awesome in almost every way, but also slightly bewildering...in that it contained 2 gravy packets...one chicken and one brown. I wonder if she knows I've never used those in America, and have rare opportunity to do so in Africa...she is from Kentucky though, so gravy is a necessary part of her life.
Dylan: I just watched a lady wrap a sandwich in a [piece of paper with a] labeled diagram of a vagina.
Julie: Girl, I just saw a naked lady walking amongst the people while waiting for a ride in Westfield
Casey: Oh man, old singing beggar just got trumped by old blind singing beggar. That's embarassing.
Me: Nothing like a good old fashioned beg-off to start your day.
Casey: Too true. Who wants to actually get on the gelly when you can stand behind the coin clankers crowding around the door for a chance at 3 Dalasi.
Abby: I'm checking lesson plans and schemes of work today...Favorite quote: "skripple on the slap" Oh Africa...
Jessica: I just realized I'd be way more excited about family bonding if we ate cookies four times a day instead of drinking attaya. I love cookies.
Dylan: Maybe Larium does have an effect on the brain. I just had a train of thought that ended with me gazing into the sky wondering, with the slowed speed of news here, if space aliens destroyed Jupiter and we saw it wink out from here, if we could find out what happened before those aliens came for Earth. Then there was a really cool, really long shooting star!
Me: Nice! But once you start seeing those aliens let me know. I will be on the first gelly to your village to bring you back to Dr. Mike.
Dylan: Much appreciated! The doxy-mobile offers nonstop service.
Abby: I just got this text from I have no idea who...U are A fren, an advisor, a colleague dat aspire to many youth, a person hu love humanity at heart, a person hu alwas wana c his o her colleagues prospering. More over u are d best out of d rest. have a pleasant nite.
Casey: Reading the science lab safety rules. #3: No horse in the laboratory.
Me: One of the science teachers found a giant spider UNDER HIS DESK and has decided to leave it in a jar in the office I'm in all day.
Jay: Dont hate on the arachnate.
2 comments:
Hey girl. Boy sav was right, your blog is funny. I see him probably once a month, its nice to talk to someone from home. Its awesome that you have picked up so much of the language. Have fun, be safe, keep in touch.
Love
Hanna
Were these actual texts all in one night? Don't y'all have anything better to do?
Love,
Mom
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