RAMADAN IS OVER

So Ramadan is here only and work has slowed down a considerable amount. I was supposed to start an information class and then do a gestion class. It was 5 days at three hours a day for each subject. I figured it was a bad idea to teach such an ambitious class during Ramadan, but the head of the youth group insisted. E said people would be willing to come and do these classes. So on Saturday I go to the community center at 8:30 for a 9:00 start in my computer class. The had of the group approaches me and says the classes will start at 11 cause it is to early since people wake up at 5 to eat then pray. So he figured the start of the hottest part of the day would be best for people who aren’t drinking water or eating to have a 3 hour class. I figure what ever since only one person out of 25 showed up. I return to the computer lab at 10:30 and check out the computers. Guess what, none of them had Word or Excel. The one thing I asked the guy to do for me, find computers with the software needed. He acted shocked when he found out. O we decided to do a gestion class on Sunday starting at 10 in the morning. SO I prepare a class over the next two hours show it to him and he says he doesn’t want a class that teaches people how to come up with an idea for an enterprise. He wants a class to do marketing, accounting, feasibility, and a few other subjects. One none of these people have businesses so those classes’ wont help, and secondly marketing alone takes a long time to teach, it isn’t a 3 hour course. But that is what he wanted so I took the next 4 hours preparing for the next class. The next day I get to the school half an hour early, prepare my classroom. The head of the group arrives and we wait till about 11:30 before he starts complaining and saying how we will just do the class in October. Then he told me how a French group came in and gave him all this money to do other formations and he wanted to know why my organization didn’t give money. At that point I snapped, I just told him that I am hear to teach not give money and that I am fasting along with the rest of them and the fact that everything was so poorly organized makes me mad. It didn’t make the difference, but now I get to hang out and do nothing until Korite.
So I have a quick question, please feel free to respond on my blog. I am curious to se what other people think. For Ramadan people fast and don’t drink water, to learn about suffering among other things. Is it still valid if you sleep and don’t work all day? In general people eat at 5 and pray then will go to sleep until 4 or 5pm and wait until 7:15 to eat bread. I feel like if you sleep the entire day and don’t work you are loosing perspective on what Ramadan is. I am not saying that it is everyone, but it is a majority. I do see men mixing cement in the morning until 11. I see women walking 2 k to the market in the heat of the day. Another thing is that you should be generous and giving during Ramadan, but my family doesn’t give food to the Talibé during Ramadan. I have unfortunately seen 5 year olds who haven’t eaten in over 24 hours because no one is willing to feed them. Ramadan has been interesting from the perspective that people complain about having to fast and how tired they are, but they don’t do anything all day. I am fasting and every day I am going to peoples houses and I work out. Any who, until next time.
Josh