Just saying what I’m up to tomorrow

Here is my plan for tomorrow. Wake up around 5am and hopefully be dressed and ready to head out the door around 5:45. At 6am a group of guys I trained as ‘community health agents’ are going to be doing a presentation at a local mosque, so I got to be there to show my support. I did this training back in May and for the past two months it has been me running a bunch of activities in the community with them. But they are finally becoming independent and are going to lead an activity tomorrow. I don’t really know what it is or what they will talk about. But I’ll be there to show my support.

After that I’ll be at the mayor’s office at 7:30am to start up with the trash collection project. This whole week has involved us going around the neighborhoods and registering all the households. So I’ll be there to see that the work gets done. Then after that, sometime before 12, I have to stop by this one guy’s place to translate some English into French. He runs an organization that is sponsored by Togo’s US embassy and they sent him some documents in English.
I’ll then do a lot of running around town making sure things are in order of this trash project. This Saturday we are doing a city wide trash clean up day. It actually hasn’t been as hard to organize as I had imagined.

Hopefully the rest of the day I’ll be free to do whatever I want. I am almost finished with this book, “Hundred Years of Solitude”. It is awesome. Maybe I’ll study some french too(no promises). I also have a bunch of these morringa plants growing in my yard and I need to find a permanent home for them. I’ll try finding to some farmers tomorrow to see if they have any extra space where I can put these things.

I killed a mouse last night. I am at an all out war with these pests! I got the one last night with a classic mouse trap. I just put a small smoked fish head down and laid the trap in the kitchen. This morning I woke up to see the trap turned upside down and a small tail sticking out underneath it. I set the trap again for tonight and hopefully another one will bit the dust. I’ll also be getting a kitten soon, and maybe one day he’ll turn into one lean mean mouse killing machine. I had a cat when I first got to post, but unfortunately he passed away (due to another volunteer’s dog).

I have free unlimited internet for a week thanks to another volunteer letting me borrow his satellite internet modem. So maybe I’ll be posting more stuff later in the week.