This Senegalese Life

There is a television show called New Girl , and on that show they play a game called True American . The Peace Corps Volunteers of Kédou...

A couple weeks ago I got my hair braided for the first time. After my mom got her hair braided in during her visit Mariama Kesso decided t...

No matter where they come from, pretty much all kids like to draw and color, and while coloring they like to say “Look! Hey! Hey, look! Hey...

I like to journal. Or, rather, I like to glue paper-type things into the small stack of booklets that have collectively become my journal....

My American family came to visit so I took the rest of my vacation days and haven't been online much  at all lately. I'll be back ...

There have been several very fancy things in my life this past week. The first one was Tambaween, which is like Halloween but is hosted by ...

Over the summer I finally put up some crintin woven fencing and turned the little space between my hut and my host mom Mariama's ...