Film Festival!

The film festival in Burkina Faso (in the wonderfully named capital of Ouagadougou, actually) was a blast! I don't think I've ever watched that many movies in one week, but it was well worth it (and the 12 hour transport adventure it took us to get there). It was really interesting to see another capital in West Africa to compare to Bamako. We definitely did our share of walking around the city going from one theatre to another so I feel like we got a pretty good feel of things. It was a little weird to be a tourist again though, after constantly telling people in Mali that no, I do actually live here! As for the movies, there were shorts, documentaries, feature length films, etc. Some of my favorites in the feature length/documentary categories (which I've heard can be found online or on netflicks with a little searching were:

La Maison Jaune (in Arabic with French subtitles, but pretty basic French I thought)
The Day After Peace (in English)
Teza (again in local language with French) This won the festival!!

Back in site other than the usual work at school and CSCom the most exciting thing to have happened (for me anyway) was my start of hot season present to myself...a big fan! It definitely makes the house much more bearable during the day...and I think it'll definitely be worth it. I figured, if I have electricity, why not?

Also: I finally downloaded skype to my laptop, so although I don't get to hook it up to internet too often, my skype name is stacyjeanw. Just in case you wanted to call me!