At the time of my last letter, I had been here for only a month. A lot has changed. At about the second month, culture shock hit me very hard. The villagers have little concept of how different my home is from theirs. Their world is very limited in scope.
Few people travel.
It is rare to talk about feelings. I think it made people very uncomfortable when I expressed sadness. I took a few days off and came to Conakry at Halloween, and had a much-needed perspective break. I spoke lots of English. After I got back from Conakry, I started working on alleviating one of the first problems I had at site.