Les Amaryllis Mbour

... for a small tropical excursion. It was amazing…the pictures speak for themselves. The island has nothing on it whatsoever but a bunch of birds and two small structures. One is a shade structure that I'm assuming the “tourism” people built on the island. The second is this old half-standing building that our “guide” (aka a random Senegalese man) explained to us was “haunted” (sort of ...

... com painéis solares e isso deixou-me completamente atonito, mesmo que a logica queira que é muito mais rentavel e de confiança um sistema solar do que contar com o ovo no cu da galinha da electricidade da rede, sobretudo numa aldeia perdida entre duas cidades mais importantes. O Samba foi se aventurar em Mbour como pescador quando ainda nem sequer sabia nadar. Hoje é skipper de uns pulas endinheirados e simpaticos que lhe tratam quase como familia. Os dois irmãos Pape e Ali, percebem ...

... do Sul. Durante 10 anos decidiu viv** uma vida normal e construiu um casarão e tinha carro e grande TV e outros mambos da praxe na sociedade de consumo, so que um dia o mwadié teve um ataque de caspa e mandou tudo ao ar, ou melhor para o bolso da mulh**, saturou-se da vida de trabalho, casa com c**veja na mão em frente ao jogo de futebol e of**eceu-lhe TUDO ! Pegou na tal caravana e voltou à estrada. Actualmente vai a França uma vez por ...

... hand here. Despite the commotion I think the workshop gave the counterparts a good idea of what we're trying to accomplish, the challenges we face, etc. We also had a one on one session with our counterparts where we came up with an integration and introduction plan for the first 3 months. It seems that the Peace Corps program in Senegal is very work and results oriented something I am grateful for. From what I've heard that is not the case in many ...

... The homestay has definitely been an eye-opening look at what the rest of peace corps will be like, but overall it was a lot of fun. Hopefully the pictures will give you a better idea of what our village is like. Our group was one of the lucky ones- we have electricity and running water! My family watches a lot of Champions League soccer at night. More details to come, and hopefully the pictures will work!

... to the hotel, Rob, Patrick, Tyler and I walked to the Shell station hoping to get some water bottles at a more reasonable price. I talked with the people in French even though it was hard for me to understand them perfectly. Patrick was able to call home, though we were forced to wait while the man went to find us change. The concept of money is so different that it amazes me. Friends borrow without any need to formalize loans, etc. Especially among sellers, the concept of ...

... bon a savourer. Il me reste deux semaines a faire ici, je tiens a en profiter au maximum!! Cette semaine sera la derniere pendant laquelle Audrey et moi on va voir les enfants IMC de l'Association... Je suis triste. Je ne peux pas vous expliquer comment je me sens, mais je sais que pour certains d'entre eux, l'heure qu'on passait ensemble a chaque semaine était la seule ou ils avaient de l'attention, où quelqu'un s'occupait d'eux pour autre chose que les laver et ...

... friends and family will have changed and will seem as foreign to me as this country of Senegal once did. Rooming with my friends Biz and Libby, we stayed up late every night talking amongst ourselves or with other students about how nervous/anxious/excited we were about going home so soon, but when the morning sun rose and the fishermen were going out to sea, all I could think about was how much I'm going to miss this beautiful country I've come to love...

... that he had no rooms and quickly shooed us out the door. We stopped to reconnoiter and have more swallows of Planet Cola on the street and he came to shoo us away there, too. So, we headed back to the Man Gan, asked for a room with a working shower and got settled. Dinner tonight was at the local internet cafe. We were the only ones there. The food was great with nice music and the TV showing American sit-coms in French until we asked them to turn it off ...

... group training to be urban agriculture specialists. My classmate and I are the only two of the group learning Fulakunda and so we know we are headed south. This week I was told that my experience in biochemistry will be very helpful, and that I should expect to be working with some adaptative researchers in my city (Kolda or Valingara). For the first real week of training the trainers were a little relaxed about speaking english to some of us, but ...