Hotel Ngor Dakar

... bag pockets emptied probably didn't help, but I did find the sentimental items I thought I had lost and realized that I didn't care that much about the other items. On the second day, I forced myself to get out and walk up to a lighthouse about an hour's walk away with a view of Dakar and the entire Cap Verte peninsula. Because I was not thinking clearly, I went for this walk in mid-afternoon, when it was most hot and humid, and without enough water ...

... to have the chance to meet up with volunteers from other countries to exchange stories and contact info.  It was also great eating seafood and cheeseburgers and swilling Gazelle beer.... Soon enough, though, it was time to return to Mauritania and a handful of us decided to keep away from Rosso and pass across one of the other boarder crossings.  We found ourselves in Kirra, en route to Selebaby, which turned out ...

... bargain and only spent six years in prison. She got out in 2004 and was deported to Columbia where there is a 3 million dollar hit out for her head. The blown trial is one of the biggest mistakes made by the prosecution in a murder trial in all of history. However her hitman is spending three consecutive life sentences in jail. The whole reason the movie was shown is because a student on the ship is writing Griselda's hitman, Rivi's biography. Rivi has ...

... if these 'repairs' were confirmed with them(I still don't know if they were ever confirmed). Senegal is French speaking. The airport people knew English, and most hotel staff knew a good amount of Englsih. The repairmen, barely. So I was using my few Spanish words to communicate. haha. But both sides (my attempted spanish speaking and their fluent French), made us both totally clueless. Hahaha. I felt embarassed because I want to ...

... minusculo, percorrendo-se à pé com consideravel facilidade. E uma peninsula dividida ao meio pela autoestrada, tendo do lado direito a zona industrial e do esquerdo as zonas residenciais (um coxe como Brasilia). De cada um dos lados da peninsula e um pouco afastados da costa, uma pequena ilhota marca a pintura do Atlântico imperturbavel, do lado direito a Ilha de Madeleine e do lado esquerdo e, sem duvida muito mais conhecida, a Ilha de Gorée, por si so um ...

... sister gets back sometime after midnight, I still can't really get out of bed, am having some difficulty breathing, and my blood pressure is so low that my hands and arms keep going numb. My sister is of course a little freaked out by my condition (apparently I looked like "death") and starts trying to figure out what horrible diease I have. In the mean time I'm telling her not to worry because I don't have a fever and ...

... The area, being on a river, is very prone to flooding and so he showed us their system to try and prevent that from occurring. The neighborhood around the school was definitely third world. Lots of poverty, trash eating goats, and tiny little man-made shacks full of strange trinkets and produce. After our tour, we joined the kids in song and traditional Senegalese dance. It was CRAZY!!! The drums and the dancing were very up beat and every one was having a blast. Even ...

... on Ile de Goree - just off the coast of Dakar. It's a public holiday here so not sure if the city will be empty - so we'll just have to wait and see... Updated Sat afternoon. Ile de Goree was busy with everyone enjoying the holiday but the city was very quiet. There were bands and groups marching on the Island in celebration of Independance, and all the women traders in matching outfits especially for the occasion. We set off from Dakar late afternoon and took ...

... and milk. Then ten days later my village doubled in size as relatives from all over Senegal and abroad gathered to eat, dress up and stay up all night listening to the life of Mohammad. Gamou is different for every village. It is not uniformly celebrated though out the county at the same time but rather celebrated at different times and then relatives can go to as many Gamous as they want. It was kind of funny that I got stuck tattooing a ...

... a small consolation prize. No such luck; they hit me for two nights and I didn't even have a key for the door since it's mostly for short-term use, if you know what I mean. There was a condom on the floor, if you know what I mean, mute testimony to some disembodied desire at least filled full, if not exactly fulfilled. On top of that, the taxi driver over-charged me. On top of that, I got a signal on my cell phone but I ...