Hotel Cap Ouest Dakar

... br><br>I'm sad to be leaving Julie and Kareem late tonight for Portugal, and also to be ending my travels soon, but I'm looking forward to Lisbon and to seeing everyone again in the U.S. It's hard to believe that soon I'll have more than 5 shirts and 3 pairs of pants to choose from every day... and also won't be able to do whatever I want, whenever I want, without regard for time or money. In any case, hopefully I'll write you all again from Lisbon!

... the equator until at least tonight. I cannot wait to see the constellations in the Southern Hemisphere. I am also excited in a nerdy school way to watch the water drain down the sink the opposite direction too. :) I do not want the water to get rough again as it might as we get away from this giant hump on Africa and cut across the Atlantic again for Namibia. We arrive in Namibia on February 14th so get excited for the Walvis Bay, Namibia updates!! Pictures will also be posted then!

... about the archbishop and all the situations and causes that he has been a part of including his close friendship with the Dali Lama. She said they often joke around like little school boys when they are together. Her most memorable moment with Tutu was when Nelson Mandela was released from jail. She said that she was preparing the house that they would be staying in when she heard a knock on the door. When she opened it ...

... for LAX. He kept repeating it and looking at me and repeating it and then looking at me and then summore. Even after the gate was shut, he was still calling it and looking at me, waiting for me to get up and say I was going to LAX. I duno, I thought it was kinda funny. Ok, so 8 hours later (5:30am) and we are at Dakar. I switch planes to go to Cape Town. The pilot finds delays and says it should take about 15 minutes...which turns ...

... embarcaram e outros se atiraram ou foram atirados ao mar, mas ninguém conseguiu voltar atras. Doi sobretudo saber que a maior parte desses escravos, na altura uma mercadoria como qualquer outra, com a qualidade medida pelo peso, musculatura e dentição, fossem capturados e vendido aos europeus por outros africanos. Visitei em seguida o museu da mulher, onde tinha um quadro da minha tia Arlette e depois o Pape Laye ocupou-se de me fazer visitar o resto da ...

... second wife to which my sister just smile politely and was like no thank you. Then he was was like, well will you give me your friend (motioning to me). To which I was like EXCUSE ME?!?! I am not something to be given to someone, but at the same time I could help but laugh because it is just not something you expect to hear everyday. After that we just completely ignored him and ...

I finally got some sleep...yay!! I slept from about 11:00 pm here to 11:30 am here. It was nice to get that much sleep. I needed it for sure. I got up and took a shower and called Mom to figure out a taxi for me to get to her school. I had no money, no directions, so thank God Veronique (my mom's maid got here). I told her I needed a taxi to the school and called Mom. Directions were explained to her, and she hailed me a taxi. I got in the taxi for 1500 CFA. He ...

... a day at Ngor Islands just chilling and relaxing on the beach eating some lush fish. The food here is pretty cheap you can eat a really decent meal out which fills you up till dinner for about 3 pounds. The island was cute but geztting back there may be a bit difficult as some of the buses here dont say where they are going to on them and dont have bus stops you just have to know where they stop. Visited the University in Dakar which is ...

a busy week at the office .... again ... started to liven up on Thursday. Invitation to Brit Embassy to attend "a reception to celebrate the 100th anniv of the Ambassador's residence" - any excuse for a party i guess. about 200 guests of all shapes and sizes - from NGOs like us, to other diplomats and Senegalese institutions of diff kinds. Good evening actually, out in the grounds of the lovely building - built in the old quarter of Dakar. I went along with a couple of Oxfam people who'd ...

... but cumbersome for travel. But cost-wise it was starting to look more like Bhutan. I don't mind some culture shock. This was sticker shock! Guatemala and Cambodia are cheap. Do the math; the numbers just don't work for Mali. So I booked a train to Dakar, Senegal. If Senegal doesn't get the same marks for authenticity, it at least gets higher marks for 'livability,' at least for West Africa. "The roads are bad," they say, so ...