WhAT?!!?!

I'm not even sure if this is real life any more.

Still sick and Mama Africa is making it clear that she hates me. So uncomfortable. I haven't been able to eat much because I've been feeling like I'd throw up after I ate/when I ate, but it's better today. I'm really hungry. :) But I think the doctor is a witch and is cursing me; he asks for my symptoms and says "Are you throwing up or nauseous? and I respond "no." I leave the doctor (after taking anothhhhhhher oh so fantastic sample) and then I get nauseous! Same thing happened before too! Crazy.

On the other side of news...

I don't think you'll believe it...

but I'm telling you anyway...

THE STRIKE IS OVER!!! Now, here's what happened. If I have my story straight, this is how it goes. Let's hypothetically say that there are 100 students per class (level, like first year geography students) Now, they all get to complete their liscence while getting paid by the government. Once they reach the end of the third year, about 60 of them are invited to continue to the Master's program (while getting paid). The other 40 are done with school, and can go home. Now, Baydallaye here, created this Master's PRO program where those 40 could go to school, but would have to pay. Seems fair, right? You don't make the cut, you pay! Well, the students were striking because it wasn't fair that those students had to pay and tried to prove that it was illegal to privatize programs at a public university. Now with the strike coming up on it's one month anniversary, Baydallaye had to do something. And fast. So what does he do? ELIMINATE THE PROGRAM. (except one master Pro) Ingenious! Now you students who were fighting for your "fellow students" just cut them from school. Jerks. Oh well. But that's the news.

No class tomorrow though, because it's Tam xarit (xarit means friend in wolof, but I don't know what this holiday is about. It comes one month after Tabaski)

I'm thinking I'll go to class on Friday morning (because the only other time when I tried to go to class, the professor was at Mecca!) so I can meet the prof and get the rattrapage (all of the work from the past month that wasn't done because the students were busy screwing over their fellow students) and the books I'll have to read, then I'll take a Wolof test, and go back to Dakar.

I am officially skipping the last three/four days before Christmas. I DON'T CARE! I'm going stir-crazy in Saint-Louis. I will return to Dakar Friday and party it up with the Black World Festival (Arts goes somewhere in there...) http://blackworldfestival.com/wp/ There's concerts all the time and a lot of stuff going on. I'm hitting it up!

Love you all...

Bisou.

Kate.

Gej naa la gis. (It's been a while since I've seen you!)

Here's my usual send me things rant...

Kate Brinks
C/O Baydallaye Kane
Universite Gaston Berger saint Louis
BP 234
Saint Louis Senegal.

Especially Christmas cookies (Vaccuum packed) and goodies... like peanut butter balls and turtles (KAYTE I'm looking at you on this one!)