I'm writing because I feel like I should

Hi everyone,
It's Saturday and I just came from a TOSTAN presentation. It's an impressive organization that has done a lot to combat female genital mutilation/female circumcision/female cutting (whatever you want to call it) in Senegal. Look them up because I hope to partner with them on some projects.

I haven't really mentioned this before, but female circumcision is widely practiced where I live. My host dad tried to explain to me one night that a little girl is closer to her father because her mother is present during her circumcision and she naturally resents her for that. It was a rough explanation and doesn't really deserve repeating, but there you go. I don't understand a lot about the practice, mainly why the women seem to be the ones who value the tradition.

Anyway, I just wanted to say hi and I love most of you (I don't have a lot of readers so I can safely say things like that).

P.S. Hey, just occurred to me I met a celebrity. Molly Melching is the founder of Tostan and was easily the coolest person in the room today.