so, the moon is tempering the rains, or so im told...

ive been getting around a bit since the rains have been holding off for the past week... its nice, though i had a fever of 103 about a week and a half ago and terrible shivers. nothing more frustrating than having a gorgeous day with much potential for hiking or schmoozing and being stuck in the house, especially when i dont know i will be able to again.

but the fever has passed, im running around trying to get my schedule under control. i seem to be constantly fighting the rains, trying to plan things but always adding the disclaimer, 'if its raining trot, im not going to be able to make it'.

i recently participated in a cane rat raising formation...and let me tell you, those are some very large rats. i had classes for three days in a large warehouse, surrounded by cane rat cages, taking frantic notes (note:i will take a picture of some of my notes and get them on here. they are hilarious-a melange of french, really bad phen. french, english, and hastily drawn pictures) on how to keep these guys alive, breeding and happy, with every break being hands on practice... by practice, i mean cleaning rat poo, cutting and drying fourrage, mixing grains, corn, and son cube, and swatting at bugs i never saw that bit every exposed piece of skin on me. these biting bugs in this country are wearing slowly away at my sanity. its going to be an intensive project and i still need to seek out funding for my farmers to buy their materials to build their cages... if anyone wants to make a small (by american standards) but large ( by cameroonian bush farmer standards), please contact me. im working on an official request, but a kind soul, or multiple kind souls working together, who have 300 us dollars to spare could help about 45 farmers build 18 concrete rat cages en brousse, chez moi. how wonderful would that be?

okay, running out of time... more updates coming bientot.