Today is day 4 in Mali... its seems like I've been here for weeks already, (in a good way) the people are very nice and welcoming, and I fell into the routine easily. Not that it has been rough by any means. Peace Corps had done an amazing job easing us into this by slowly integrating things we are familiar with and new things... its really like camp so far. Tomorrow though is the day. Dun...Dun.... Duuuuunnnn! My village is called Baguineda Camp and I'll be learning Bambara! My african last name is Coulibaly (Cool-EE-Bal-E) I like Bambara because its super phonetic! not like FRENCH!! I'll be with 10 other PCT's (peace corps trainees) it should be fun, this is our first home stay with a Mali family and we will be in their home for 12 days! then come back to Tubaniso for more training.
Apparently when we get there tomorrow our village is going to have a welcoming ceremony for us and we get our full African names... right now we are all just called "Tubob" which means outsider or basically white person. How wierd huh? here I am not black so I am considered white! CRAZY...
Leaving the cozy confines here to go out to the real world is pretty scary... Im not going to lie! haha, I will just smile and nod, smile and nod! lol Today at our stereotypes training I learned that one stereotype that Malians have for Americans are that we are dirty. They had a panel and they basically said its because we only shower once day, or not even once a day! haha interesting huh?! Im off to prepare for tomorrow...
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