Frustration

Today I found out what village I will be living in for the next two years.

My village sounds great. It is a village of about 700-800 people, very close to where I "demysted", about 70 km south of Tambacounda. There has been one health volunteer there before me, and I was able to talk to her about it a bit, and she says that she loved it.

Only one problem - I have been studying Mandinka, and the people in my village speak mainly Pulaar, and a little Jaxanke, which is similar to Mandinka, but still a different language.

Oops.

I am going to talk to the language training coordinator tomorrow to see if I can start learning Pulaar. We'll see what happens.