This Senegalese Life

During the first year of my service I washed all my own laundry in plastic tubs ( baignoires , as we call them here) with a washboard and ...

As many people know, Peace Corps Volunteers love to describe in unsolicited detail all the positively revolting things that have gone into...

I am pleased to share my birthday with Marielle, another Health PCV from my training group, and this year we had a remarkably delicious bi...

Last weekend I (along with half my village, a dozen other PCVs, a few European tourists, a handful of Canadians) went to the Bassari villa...

I wear things here that I just wouldn't wear in America, (unless I was at summer camp , where I once wore a vividly teal full-body rain...

Fatou, my host sister Mariama Kesso's baby, is adorable. People are always saying that she's "cheeks only" because her c...

One of the main reasons I was so stoked to go to IST was because I was looking forward to seeing my PST roommates (Sarah L., Emma, and Cady)...

We hosted the Peace Corps/Senegal American Independence Day party at the K édougou Regional house. About a hundred people came and all in al...

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...