Hotel Le Warang Mbour

... that I think I can go back and improve upon what I learned as much as necessary to communicate with the Pulaars in my village.<br><br>Training this time was mostly focused on the technical aspects of being a health/environmental education volunteer. We learned how to make latrines (holes in the ground appropriate for village life "bathrooming"), gardening, tree growing, training of local health workers, and how to find the money ...

... sais pas quoi et le frère de Samba jouait dans une des équipes. Match nul (3 partout) et les pénalités ont dû être interrompues et remportées au lendemain, du fait du manque de lumière naturelle. Retour au village et tour obligatoire pour visiter tous les amis qu'on a pas vus depuis une semaine. Le lendemain Samba part tôt le matin et je reste avec ses trois frères avec qui je me suis régalé. C'est des puits de savoir, de persévérance, simplicité et, encore et toujours, générosité. Je ne ...

... Deux autres voitures encore s'arrêt**ont, les deux font aussi des taxis, d'ailleurs je pense qu'ici à Mbour toutes les voitures particulières font taxi même si il n'y a aucune inscription les signalant comme tels. Le troisième accèpte de me prendre tout de même « je rentre à la maison, viens je peux t'amen** ». 2 km plus loin je descends en rem**ciant et je continue mon chemin. Je fais une petite pause pour le déjeun** et sans trop tard ...

... the game actually ended in a tie 3-3. I had my moment of glory by scoring the first goal and we managed to hold them off until it got dark. Now not only are we the coolest stage with no ETs (early terminations), we are also the best soccer players, sand or no sand.<br><br> Over the next couple of days we got a taste of what life will be like as actual volunteers. Counterpart workshop pretty much brings a state of semi controlled chaos to the ...

Hi everyone, I finally have something to write about! We've been in Senegal for a grand total of one week now and so far I'm having a lot of fun. There are 40 ppl in my group and everyone is young, about 22-27. The people are very cool, very nice, and no crazy hippies haha. After two days in Philadelphia where we learned a lot of general stuff we all flew over together and were picked up at the airport by ...

... our shoes before entering the room which housed two couches, and some cushions on the floor. The marabout spoke in French, his voice so soothing that it was hard to focus on distinguishing the words (a process impossible for many of my peers who did not speak French and had to rely on Professor Roberts's interpretations). We were trying not to fall asleep when they gave us soft drinks. There was singing outside as the children learned their prayers. They were invited inside and ...

... are so neat and I tried to get it to change purple for me but it was scared. They move really slow which makes be think they might actually be kind of dangerous, and I think the villagers were saying could validate that. I shall do some more research on that creature I might get a tatoo of it when I come home...nah just kidding, would be pretty cool though. Now while all of this was going on, the me prepareing to leave for IST/Kayak trip stuff, I developed ...

... my family had just brought out a tiny evergreen tree, "le sapin". Aminata thought that it was called "le serpent" because it was green like a snake. My friend Biz was over for dinner (ceebu jen... yum) and stayed to help decorate the fake tree with lights and purple garland. It was quite the magnificent creation in my opinion, but you can judge for yourselves once I post the pictures of the Muslim-family-Christmas tree.

... on the window begging for money. There were more beggars in Touba probably because it's a religious city and because the Magal is coming up and charity is one of the pillars. None of these people speak French other than numbers, only Wolof. We do not give money to the children. This is not because we are callous, but because we do not want to teach them to beg. Then, they will skip school to beg and cheat their future. The manager finally returns with change ...

... possible. Even at a run I have them following me asking for money and grabbing at my clothes and bag. they generally dont make me feel threatened because they are only children, but the fact that I cant walk anywhere without similar attention is pretty wild. For all of you that have sent packages or letters, again..thank you! I've been the envy of many a volunteer over the past month or so. I plan on trying to update again soon! With love, Jenny