Jaime's whereabouts

I just talked to Jaime. She doing her first family stay. She will be there for about 2 months. She will have a weekly visit to Rosso, and she will update her blog when she is there. The little village she is in does not have any electricity and therefore no computers. She has taken a lot of pictures and says it is beautiful. She has not had an opportunity to put them up yet, and she does not know when she will. She said the connections are so slow that her friend took 3 hours to load 20 pictures on his computer. Anyway, she is with a family of 3, mom, dad, and a daughter who is 22. She cannot communicate with them at all. They do not speak either French or English. It is a dialect of Arabic. They live in the middle of the desert a little north of Rosso but not near the ocean. She is doing 7 hours a day of language training. She has her own bedroom. It has 4 walls and a roof but no furniture at all. She has her own bathroom, but it is just 4 walls, no roof, and a hole in the middle of the floor. She played with her family in the sand dunes last night and then needed a shower. They emptied the dish/kitchen water that they had used to cook with during the day into a bucket and gave that to her to wash in. She said it was brown. She does not know what she is eating, but she says it is not bad. This is a very conservative Muslim area. She cannot wear American clothes at all. They made her a "moolafa"(phonetic) which is about 6 yards of fabric. She is supposed to wrap herself in it, but she does not have that much height so she cannot master it and it falls off of her. She met some young boys who live nearby. When they state their age they say the year they were born and then you do the math, they were '93, so they were Anna's age. Jaime was sharing her pictures with them and learning how to say all the different family members. They offered her a camel in exchange for her sister. She did not tell me if she accepted. Two other volunteers are fairly close to where she is.
Anyway, I just thought I would share with everyone! Jaime sounds very happy!! She said she will try to post something Wednesday. By the way, her cell phone did work from where she is!