Have yourself a merry little christmas...

Thats one of my favorite Christmas songs and it is playing on the cd player right now. I am in Kolda for holidays and we are eating duck for Christmas dinner (Jess and Nathan dispatched Daisy and Donald earlier this morning) and from what it seems a massive dinner. Tonight I think we are going small to prepare ourselves for the holiday itself but we may get a pig. Some of you know of the vivid dreams of bacon I have but due to the lack of meat regulation I am not supposed to eat pork. But I miss Bacon.
No I have not received packages yet but the post office said maybe today!! Before the end of January for sure (Si Allah Jaabi). Thank you everyone for letters, cards and packages. I cannot express enough how much they help me when I am having a rough day and I can just go into my hut pull out a letter, read it, and remind myself that someone loves me and believes in me and the dammit I can learn Pulaar because I CAN.
I have two people looking for pulaar tutors for me. Iasked around the village but the teachers in village are very busy and no one else has m,uch time available. So I have asked a school administrator in the road town to talk to some people and the world vision repabout 7K away is also looking too.
I am picking up vocab and I use flashcards but I just have the grammar of a child which is frustrating.
Ohh but big news-I got my bed AND the new Peace Corps issued Mosquito net! the bed is not that comfortable but I am off the floor and it actually looks like a bed. The mosquito net actually covers the entire bed (which means I stretch out and when I wake from malaria dreams I'm not tangled in the net-less panic) and it has a flap for easy exit. I feel like I am big pimpin. I also got two more buckets from the market.
My goal for the new year is to get over my fear of the well women and do my laundry next to well where I can easy get fresh water to rinse clothes completely.
I also found the Senegal Natural Resources has some projects going in my community already (like BEES!!) which should help me get experience more projects and what resources are available to me.
I will try and write a more thorough post later but now I get to clean the ducks. Love to all, and most of all Merry Christmas!! Sing some carols for me and call the people you love!