Burkina Faso

Right now I am having a really good time in the Peace Corps.  This could be due to the fact that I am currently sitting in one of the maybe two air conditioned building in all of Ouahigouya.  It really all depends on the time of day when you ask me.  Last night my friend Christine and I were the first Peace Corps traniees to get in trouble with the fuzz.  For those of you not hip with the lingo that is the police.  We were taking a tour of the city and we just happened to run the one stop light on the one main road in the city and there just happened to be a cop standing right there.  Lucky our language teacher was with us and he worked it all out.  If it hadent been for him, we probably would have had to spend the night in Burkina jail.  Not really, but I am sure there would have been some type of fine.  
In other news, the animals of Burkina Faso and I are not becoming fast friends.  My courtyard is currently inhabited by, from what I have seen, two cats, two dogs, numerous chickens, numerous goats, numerous pigeons, and a rooster.  The rooster, however, is the bain of my existence.  Said rooster decides that it should be morning and everyone should wake up at 3AM, and when he gets no response at 3AM, he decides to talk to the rest of his rooster friends in the neighborhood.  Their conversation usually lasts until about 4:30AM.  Just as I am about to drift back to slumber land, my family wakes up at 5AM to start their day, when it seems like they just went to sleep at 2.  I hear the TV while I sleep until the one station the country plays its turn off sound.  Oh yeah, if I have not mentioned it yet, my family has a TV that we watch every night.  We watch the japanimé adventures of Sinbad dubbed over in French and some spanish soap operas dubbed over in French.  They are pretty interesting and I think that they are helping me with my French a little bit.  One night there was some type of Burkina kids jeopardy show that I was pretty awesome at and understood what they were saying.  
In summation I am having a good time.  I really like my homestay family.  I may not understand completely what they are saying but I have only been here for a week.  Also the crazy heat is not as bad as it used to be.  I think I am getting used to it.  Days that are 95 seem like spring time.  Mmmmmm spring time.