The First Weekend

Hello everyone! I can't believe I have already been here for a week. The days seem to go by very slowly because of all the free time here but I think
the week has gone by pretty quick. Only nine more weeks to go! I spent most of this weekend relaxing although an Australian volunteer had her birthday on Friday and rented a villa in Mbour (yes, apparently you can do this and it was quite nice) and Benjamin and I headed over there Saturday night to hang out and listen to a bit of music. Although I think my host family is very protective of me because we were home swiftly before midnight! It was good fun but French was the language of the night because the majority of the volunteers are French :(

It's very strange not celebrating 4th of July so Happy Fourth to you all because no one has mentioned it here. My host sister and I headed to the Mbour beach (about a 15 minute walk from our house). I can't say it is anything like those Florida beaches but it was relatively cleaner than the street. However, it looked to have about the same amount of people that are probably at the Boynton Beach right now- totally crowded and lots of boys wrestling and playing football and pretty much every type of swimming attire you can imagine from tshirt and jeans to real swimsuits. Anyways, going to keep this short because I have some other things to get to but I will soon upload pictures of the beach. Happy Fourth of July and thank you to all our servicemen who make the US as wonderful it is. oh, and GO GERMANY :)