Last week was full-time at IMS - but most of it as a student, not a teacher.
Joel, the IMS director, suggested I sit it on a course that is part of a Masters on leadership taught throughout Africa. Lots of the aspects that were highlighted brought back memories of working in Africa before.
It turned out to be a long week, leaving home at 7 am if I wanted to get some exercise swimming before getting a ride from the mission at 8am with Alan, one of the teachers, and getting back sometimes after 6pm. After a few days of missing out on my siesta during the heat of midday, trying to concentrate during the afternoons and as usual having irregular sleep during the hot nights I actually felt woozy and went home Wednesday midday to catch up on my liquids and sleep. I felt better Thursday (afternoon off while students teaching kids’ clubs), taught the Bible College class Thursday night, and faced another long day Friday.
I decided to dig into the savings and actually left the airconditioning on all night, meaning that for one of first times in Burkina Faso I actually slept nearly all of the night. I cut class early (12 instead of 1pm) since we were having company for lunch and came back to find the afternoon classes cancelled since everyone was feeling as wrung out as I and unable to concentrate. The weekend began early!
