First two weeks- a few Accomplishments

I did not burn down my house with candles/stove.
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I left my house everyday and talked to people.
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"Mahay" is a word in Gasy that is really really useful. It means either to know, as in "do you know how to cook?" "are you mahay cooking?" or to be good at something, as in "he speaks Gasy really well" "he is really mahay Malagasy". Also kind of can mean to understand, as in "mahay Gasy culture".

This isn't all it is used for, but it's a start. So, this week I have been declared mahay at the following things:
Fetching water
Playing soccer
Dancing
Saying helllo (in the local dialect)

I have a home!

It's been just over two weeks now at my new site. I'm now near Andasibe, about 3-4 hrs east of Tana. My house is great!

It is made of wooden planks with a thatched roof. Luckily they (because Peace Corps told them to) put plastic sheeting up on the ceiling to stop leaks and keep bugs from falling on me. I am supposed to be working with a local NGO that works with community organizations to manage parts of the forest (VOIs), so the carpenter working on my house\ building my outhouse (kabone) works for them.