too much time

Us PCVs are really quite creative when it comes to filling the empty hours of a Saharan desert day. When it is too hot to leave the house, we have been known to undertake the following hobbies:

-improving our cursive handwriting
-perfecting cartoon caricatures of Peace Corps staff
-playing games of Scrabble using only local languages
-book writing and reading
-knitting, embroidering, painting

and now the latest addition of what a few Americans will do with a couple of hours and a digital camera:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naHGCh-StE8

-music video making

Just search You Tube for "village wrestling part deux" or Mauritania, Peace Corps, John Slattery. All will bring to view a somewhat embarrassing but ultimately entertaining montage we made yesterday.

We are pretty pleased with ourselves.