This Senegalese Life

From St Louis I headed down to the Peer Support Network (PSN) meeting in Thiès, at the Training Center. Peace Corps/Senegal’s PSN is still ...

Last week there was a Health/EE Summit at the Thiès Training Center, which meant that all the Health and Environmental Education volunteers ...

At the end of IST (In-Service Training) there was a meeting for SeneGAD (the Senegal Gender And Development group) and that involved the Sen...

If you're curious about  the Kédougou Region , where I live, or the  Pulaar  language, which I'm still learning, do check out these ...

Right now I'm in Thi ès, starting my In-Service Training (IST) on technical aspects of the projects I'll be working on as a Peace Co...

I just came across these photos from our site assignments, during Pre-Service Training. They gave us blindfolds and had us line up... ... ...

Tomorrow our Community Counterparts (CCs) and arrive at the Thiès Training Center for a three-day Counterpart Workshop (CPW) where we'll...

But I'm going to post some photos of my missing toenail anyway.

I was just thinking "Oh, I've been here a month and a half and I haven't gotten sick yet! Awesome!" And then my nose stu...

I'm about to head back out to Darou, my training village, for another week of Pullo Fuuta language classes. I think I'm getting a ...

I'm headed out to Darou in a few minutes, and I'll be back to the center (and internet access) on Sunday evening.  Hope you all ha...

I'm back at the Training Center after a couple weeks in Darou, and things are still going well. We'll spend the next day or so doing...

"Toubab" means foreigner; everywhere I go a dozen little voices call out "Bonjour toubab! Toubab! Toubab!" and the brave...

"It is going well." I had a pretty good week in Darou, my training village, and am back at the Thiès Training Center for the nex...

Today we got our language group assignments (which will pretty much determine the region where we'll be placed, and I will be learning a...

This is a short, two-part walk-through video tour of the Peace Corps Training Center in Thiès. It turns out that one two-minute clip takes a...

Asalaam malekum!  Hello, and welcome to the Peace Corps Training Center in Thiès (which I am now pronouncing "tchess"). Training...

I haven't had any Mefloquine-influenced dreams yet, but that was what I wanted to call this blog. I reconsidered after seeing that the d...