Coralia Club Le Baobab Somone

From Toubakouta we hired a sept place to take us all the way to the lovely and tiny fishing village of Toubab Dialaw. So peaceful and a really friendly place! We even ended up gettin our very own tourguide free of charge called Jamil who insisted on taking us everywhere around "his village" and often tried to convince us that we should stay there forever...he didnt even ask any of us to marry him ...

... elle. Je peux comprendre que pas tout le monde cautionne ma façon de voyager (Tata y compris) et que au bout de quelques jours, surtout avec les réponses insatisfaisantes aux questions inquisitives relevées, ma présence devienne une charge qui on n'ait plus envie de supporter. Elle ne l'avouera jamais, mais mon petit coeur me dit qu'elle a juste cherché une excuse pour raccourcir mon séjour chez elle. Pas de problème, allez hop ...

... heroes season 2)<br> - itunes gift certificates (for those of you who want to send something but don't like going to the post office)<br> - things for a cat (I'm going to get one in a few weeks)<br>- baked goods (or mixes)<br>- good books (esp. Gone with the Wind)<br>- magazines <br>- a needlepoint kit<br>- bell for a bike ( I just got my new peace corps issue bike)<br>- a legal pad<br><br>and anything else you might like to send....<br><br>THANKS!<br>

... with the kids cos I have basically done everything i can do in a day around Dakar. The evening we went to kick boxing with the kids on sun evening at the stade in liberte 1 and at it a kid called assane spoke to mere anta (he was at empire a whilme back but talibe kids came and took him from empire) Anta decided he could come back after he asked and all was fine. We left the stade after to go get the car rapide baack to medina and loads of talibe kids were ...

... the kids was a bit bizarre. He did some maths then I had to explain to reinforce to the kids which went ok, other than not knowing key words like how to say area and cm2 but you know I got by! After that they had some bio and he made me draw a diagram on the board (the kids all said it was great but you know my art it was pants) and the teacher just left me when i was doing that so I wasnt really sure if I should be ...

sat 23 Altho i popped out for some shopping, i ended up spening most of Saturday working on a variety of things. However, the tedium of that was broken by the sound of whistles, drumming, chanting and cheers getting closer and closer outside on the street. I guess they were raising funds for some community association, or a project, or their college ..... I peered out off the balncony, and saw this troupe of (students?) dancing/and drumming for music ...

... all around the old area, and found the most wonderful cloth shops, and silversmiths, and cafe/brasseries in the french tradition (dived in to a nice clean one and had a "croque monsieur" for lunch!), and a lebanese supermarket (where i did some grocery shopping). I also found the big amazing cathedral, and the main mosque, and the administrative part of town where some rather fine government ministry buildings dominate. I ...

Après être rentrés bien tard, nous avons passé une bonne nuit de sommeil et je me suis levé tardivement. J'ai alors entrepris, non sans mal compte tenu de vis bien rouillées, la réparation du phare gauche du Pinz et Mbacke m'a permis de faire réparer (bricolage rapide) le rétroviseur cassé la veille. Une fois ces tâches accomplies sous un soleil de plomb, nous avons quitté la maison ...

... with whom we went out to l'Etage in Saly. On our way back we decided not to go to bed so early and despite it was quite late, we bought a bottle of vodka that we drank on the roof of Sidy's house. Once tired enough, we went back to Mbacke's house and as I was entering the courtyard with the car, the gate was pushed by the wind and the miror on my side of the truck got broken. This ****** me off but I had no problem finding sleep ;-)

... difficiles autour d'une bière, avant qu'il nous permette de trouver un hébergement pour la nuit, dans la maison gardée par Jack, pour un tarif honéreux malgré d'âpres négociations... il faut avouer qu'il s'agit d'une très belle maison! Au menu ce soir, spaghetti bolo sortis de mon stock de survie. Nous sommes rapidement allés nous coucher.