Things can come together rather suddenly it seems, and I find myself now preparing to give a presentation of my business group initiative on Monday. It will be announced over the radio today and tomorrow, and it is possible that a rather large number of people will show up. I’ve actually been pretty busy over the past several days trying to find a building and inform people and get participation from the responsables, all of which appears to have worked out fairly well. Now I just have to actually put my presentation together and rehearse it in French so that I am not stumbling over each word.

Mary and I have been reading a lot, with the goal of actually finishing reading a book together, and I’m more than half way through an great book on the history of law in the 20th century that she brought over for me. The weather has been often cloudy, but it hasn’t actually rained much, and certainly not as hard as I had expected by this point.

The mailrun comes tomorrow, Monday is my formation, and then Tuesday we leave for Conakry. Time, as in the rest of the world, has the quality of moving both slowly and very quickly, but the past few weeks have gone rather faster than I anticipated, and I think we are both a little stunned that her visit is almost over. In Conakry we hope to do some shopping, and hopefully there won’t be a ton of volunteers at the volunteer house. A new education stage arrived a couple of days ago and they will be leaving I think on Monday, so I don’t expect a lot of other volunteers to be there, but we will see.

I’ll report back some time after the formation on Monday to let you know how it went, and hopefully I’ll have the chance to post some pictures while I’m in Conakry.