T plus 18 jours

deb byler is arriving in orodara at approximately 5:00 (this evening), donna went to meet her in bobo

the internet cafe in orodara finally has a connection, i haven't used it yet so i have no idea how fast it is, it's 500 cfa for and hour, and a respective amount for a half-hour

i'll be sending some samples of what i've recorded to megavoice in israel, they'll then give me feedback on how i can clean it up and make it good enough for them to make an audio player with it

i got the speaker back that i blew, they work beautifully now, though i can't ever hook them up to a 110V current, the new transformer won't accept it, and yet that's not a problem because you can get just 110V straight from the wall in burkina, so we're good

we've had rain for the past few days in a row, today we had a fair bit of rain and so i don't know how i'm going to get from the studio to the main compound without getting myself muddy up to my ankles, this is gonna be fun, and i get to bike home yet too (~ 2 km)

i talked with phil bergen the other day about cool hobbies to pursue, not just here in burkina, and we talked about some of the things that he and john mark (his son) had the silversmith make, to make a long story short, i'm planning to hang around the blacksmith's place and maybe pick up a few things

i'm learning how to:
- stop counting days
- have a life
- learn