A Different Kind of Moose

Ive written quite q bit on here but never about my cat oose, think moose without the m. he was given to me as a present by my host family. my first night with my host family i was sitting in their living room looking akward and they were trying to ask me questions but after all their questions ran out it turned out to be very strange just sitting in their living room doing and saying nothing. then a kitten crawls out from under my chair and meows at me, as if to say you are not the only the wrong color to be a person but what are you doing in my house. so i picked him up and put him on my lap and rubbed his belly, the is the first and only time he has let me do this, and immidately he started to purr and wouldnt leave my lap for about an hour and everyone in my family had this look on their face like, youve tamed the wild beast holy crap! so the second day my sister says to me, were going to give you the cat youll need a friend when you leave. and so only two days in country i had found my cat oose, who was given that name by my family. i found out last week actually that moose in local language means cat, so my family was probably saying moose the whole time but i just thought they were saying oose. anyway the name stuck and its a good fit though. his faveorite things to eat are bread, the local cheese, fish, fried doughballs and fried plantains, he also thinks that lizards and mice make a good meal, i would say he catches at least one lizard per day. he sleeps with me and snuggles real nice he follows me around in the house and talks a lot. he has found a way to climb my walls and leave my house without using the door so he spends time on the roof of my apartment complex and hunts animals outside the concession. hes full of personality and he has a taste for american kitty treats, expensive taste for a west african cat. anyway when pictures get loaded up, hint hint hint, youll all see him hes pretty damn cute.
so i met the super intendent to the schools today and he unlike every other directer had some tough questions for me regarding my plans for an environmental club to make sure that i had a well thought out plan. such questions as to why an environmental club could be an asset to the school, and what types of activities could we do and what types of activities could we do that do not require money or water, only time from the students. he then asked that i make a flier about the benefits and some example activities that we could do. then he would distribute them throughout the schools he also asked that since there are 30 schools in the commune it was impossible to start clubs at every schools and i kind of wanted to be like, im an american watch me plan ive got two years its possible, but then i realized that i was dealing with beninese and that my american planning was probably going to be a waste of time, so i said that i would do 3 to 5 schools having meetings every other week, as there are 10 days in a 2 work week cycle its possible. i also said that i would like a professor at each school to help me and those schools that did not me visiting every meeting or so i could help a professor come up with activities to do with the students so that they could start one of hteir own without me. first time someone has challenged my idea of starting an environmental club but it was good to tell him all the reasons id come up with when i initially wanted to begin this type of project and it was nice for someone to challenge my thinking instead of just thinking, oh shes white shes got all the answers to everything and can do almost anything. this is actually how a lot of people think here and its sad because we dont have the answers to anything and in order to make sure that our projects are more sustainable its good from time to time to have people ask the harder questions to get a more concrete idea of if the project is actually sustainable or if it just sounds good.