One year down..one more to go.

I made it back to Kiffa last night around 10pm after a twelve hour exhausting taxi ride. Not only was it uber humid and unbelievably hot but I was also forced to sit in between two mulafa women (not the smallest people) wearing indigo mulafas. *Indigo mulafa= Deep blue, long piece of fabric covering the entire body. Embedded with a powder like substance that leaves the skin with a pretty gnarly frost bite color until washed off. I guess men here really dig the obese death look- there is also a whitening cream the women put on that gives their faces a white, burnt appearance. Not sure what all the ingredients are but I'm pretty sure bleach is one of them. When I arrived in Kiffa lats night I was lookin' pretty good- sweaty and blue and I still somehow managed to decline three marriage proposals. Beauty is definitely only in the eye of the beholder.
School is over, finally! One school year down and one more to go. One of the teachers wants to work on starting an English club this summer so hopefully I won’t be entirely bored everyday. I'm working on uploading pictures onto Picasa and will hopefully have the link on here soon.
The new volunteers will be here SATURDAY! Hopefully I will have a few site mates this upcoming year because right now things are a bit lonely being the only volunteer here. I had a trainee email me a few weeks ago from Kentucky because she was in Glasgow working with Paula Brooks and mentioned leaving in June with the Peace Corps. South central KY will be strongly represented this year :) what a small world.