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Typed 4/25: Notice the user icon I chose for this post? That's me with my cousin Paige. See, it's kinda my wishful thinking picture because it's me with family... Like I'm supposed to be right now... Home. In Colorado. But instead, I'm stranded in Chicago til tomorrow morning thanks to a giant storm that first delayed my incoming flight from Spain, making me miss my connecting flight to Denver, and then got so bad my replacement flight to Denver was progressively delayed three hours then finally cancelled. So I'm in Toubabadou right now, but not home yet. What is Toubabadou, you ask? Well thanks to a 20 hour layover here, I have time to draw you a map of the world. This is how most Gambians (outside the well-educated ones living mostly in Kombo) perceive the world:  Okay, so my skills in Microsoft Paint leave something to be desired. But basically, this is how it works: there are three continents. The first one is Africa, of which The Gambia occupies 25% or so in their envisioning. Then there's Toubabodou (Toubab land, i.e. white people land), which is alternately called Europe but also includes the US. China is the land where anyone who looks Asian must be from, though sometimes it is considered just another part of Toubabodou. So hence, if you asked my host family where I am right now, they would tell you Toubabodou. And when I return, they will ask me how the Toubabodou people are. So Toubabodou people, how are you? 5/1: Sorry for the neglect in actually updating you on the fact that I did finally arrive safely Saturday afternoon, just in time to see a friend who'd flown out to Colorado, and caught up with friends on church Sunday, then had a big family get-together (including Stephen's fiancee's family) that afternoon. Other than that, I'm spending a lot of time with Mom's new puppy (who has actually lived here over a year and is no longer a puppy, but this is my first time meeting her), trying to remind the rest of my pets that they do in fact know me, and stocking up on supplies to take back with me.
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