27.06.08

i can't think about the 4th of july.

it seems so foreign to me that we're all going to be sitting around eating hotdogs and chips and watching fireworks...and drinking beer...i'm 21??? and i think i forgot how to ride a bike. tomorrow i am going to the market early in the morning to buy everything you need to make the plat national that is called ceebu jën. maybe i have already talked about it. i am making ceebu jaga which has fish balls and fish. then i am cooking chicken for all my friends (we bought 6). and then we are going out dancing. it is my going away party. hopefully i will be busy enough that i won't actually feel emotional. i am going to learn how to make yassa (onion sauce) and cook over charcoal. we'll see how it goes, i am sure i will mess up something. sunday night some of the other americans and i are going to do henna. and monday i have an important interview at 11am. i went to the prison yesterday to get an interview there but the guy was un friendly and told me i needed an authorization or something...power trip. i was just asking about the law, i thought that was public information. maybe with this authorization can talk to some ladies actually IN the prison...in anycase i am really hungry. and nervous about coming home. i need a job and maybe instead of hotdogs for the 4th, i'll make some ceeb.