06.09.04 - 08:36

A few of you, after reading my delightful entry about being sick (did you enjoy all the detail?) have asked if i am well now. and i am. alhamdillah!

I'm traveling down to Kaedi in a couple minutes (if you believe what the chauffers say) or several hours (if you use common sense about the Mauritanian sense of time.) I hadn't been planning to attend the swearing-in (in which the trainees become PCVs), but, well, why not? Annika and I will be with the Kiffa and Agamamine PCVs for their affectation (i.e. when they get to their work sites.) We are more pleased than most at the prospect of having some other friendly faces in our region. With the new PCVs, our region will have tripled its number of Peace Corps volunteers! So we will attempt to make them feel welcome. (We have little goody packs waiting to be assembled for them... I'll write more on that after we've given them.)

I am excited to go back to Kankossa, as I will have been away for two weeks or so. My first project when I get back will be an education session on how to dispose of medical waste. Why? Because there are used syringes all over the hospital grounds. And blood on the floor and walls of the "circumcision room." And last month, I found a syringe right outside the front door of my house.

O, well. It may be a while before I update again. But please send me snail mail! I promise to respond to every letter I get! Why don't I give my address again? OK!

Molly McCollom

Corps de la Paix

BP 222

Nouakchott, Mauritanie

West Africa

(that's an 80cent stamp)

Note that the address is the same for every volunteer (although some choose to use other addresses in their regional capitals.)

Take care!

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