hings in Cape Verde are busy. I recently helped with an exchange program with music, art, dance, theater, etc teachers coming from American and teaching along with Cape Verdian teachers in the same subjects. Students from both CV and America will be attending this two week intensive program and my role was to help translate for the teachers so that they could make their class plans. Its a really cool program and the arts are something definitely lacking from Cape Verde. I also found out that the music teacher from Cape Verde was the teacher to the guy I´m teaching violin to and we made a connection. I think in the next few weeks we will get together and play music. He wants to put on a concert somewhere but I don´t know if I´m up to that since I haven´t played in awhile.

On top of that, I´ve been leading training sessions for the new Community Development Mobilzier trainees on finding their role, networking, teaching informal classes, tourism, etc. We're now on week 7 of 9 and they should find out their site placements on Friday. This PST is going a lot faster than last year. The new group is great and I'm enjoying getting to know them. Wednesday is a Saint's Day in Txan de Tanque and I'm planning on spending the next few nights there leading up to the big festa. I've heard there are lots of activities taking place: plays, batuque dancing, traditional music, etc.

In other news, all the flights to Maio have been cancelled for the next 3 months because there is something wrong with the runway. This means all travel will have to be done by boat which pretty much sucks really bad but at least I´ll get back there at some point. Good thing they are so eager to promote tourism...

This past weekend I went on a hike to the Big Tree with a bunch of the trainees and other PCVs. I was planning on visiting my host family yesterday but my digestive system prevented me from doing pretty much of anything.

But anyways, on to a new week. I don't have any sessions that I am directly leading so this will make for a more relaxing week in some ways.