Photo Gallery #56- Formateur (& trice) Fun...

The Trainees were fortunate to have several of the same formateurs
(trainers) as we did last year, as well as a few new faces.


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Ben-Djo, who has been a trainer for all three of the groups of PCV's in Chad so far, having fun with Beatitude.

You can almost see the wheels spinning...
Beatitude: "What the hell?"
Ben-Djo doesn't seem to be having any better luck with the singing Santa snowman.
Ça va?

Bonding.
Grâce, the only formatrice, caught off guard. She doesn't usually wear the cardboard pilgrim hat...
Looking slightly more put together, but wait, wrong baby...
There we go.
Moussa and Grace.

Didier, one of the new formateurs. Although the language trainers were banned from speaking 'en anglais' during stage, Didier speaks near-perfect English, which took me by surprise.

Kadadi, also a trainer from last year. He's now working as the Censeur (Vice-Principal) at a private middle school in N'Djamena.

Valery, the youngest of the formateurs, and the best English-speaker of the group. Not to blow my own horn too much, but I was friends with him before, and I suggested that he might want to apply for the language trainer job with Peace Corps. I guess it worked, and led to something bigger- he's just left for the US on a two-year Fulbright scholarship.

Moussa, the poster child for Chadian dentistry.

Getting into the spirit.
Time for a makeover, courtesy of Rhiannon.
It's an improvement, but hey, look where we started.
The même chose club returns, starring Grâce, Moussa, and me.
Noelle, the Training Director, who seems permanently cool, calm, and collected.
Awww. Kadadi, Didier, Ben-Djo, Moussa, Valery, and Grâce.