November 25th

Alright, so I've gotten a few concerned responses to my last post, and I just want to tell everyone that I'm fine. Every day campus feels lonely, but there are still fun moments, and I'm still learning a lot.

For example, today, I had an hour break in between class, so I sat at a table outside the classroom area. I was texting one of my friends when three guys came and sat down at the table. I looked up, and one said "Bonjour." I replied "Bonjour." I switched to Kiswahili, and he responded, but then continued in French, and said that they were not Tanzanian. I asked where they were from, and they said Comoros, and I was SUPER excited because not only did I know what that was, I knew where it was, and that it was a French-speaking country! It's a little island near Madagascar.

They are here to study masters in archaeology, but the first semester they are only learning English. They literally came here not knowing ANY English in September, and we were having a pretty good conversation. I was and still am amazed. We talked about studying different languages, and differences between Tanzania and Comoros, and it was really, really interesting. It was also really fun for me to hear French again, and made me miss my host family in Martinique. We talked for almost the entire hour we had until our next classes, and then they just said ok, see you around.

So, after that one little conversation, I've been trying to think of how I could possibly find myself a job which would require me to go to French-speaking and Swahili-speaking African countries... So far, I've got nothing, but I'll let you know, haha.