This Senegalese Life

There are a lot of huts in various states of disrepair around. In other parts of the country you'll see mostly apartment buildings...

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

Not long after I came to Senegal I was in a car with a few other PCVs, and we got to talking about what scents a Senegal-themed scented ca...

Transport is usually the worst and most unpleasant part of living in Senegal. Unless you're well-to-do and have your own car and driver...

My host family, the Souarés, are wonderful. At the beginning of each month I give my host father and mothers a modest cash contribution, to...

Buckets are such a big part of my life here. I've really come to appreciate a good, sturdy bucket, especially one with a nice lid. Her...

So, I had step throat, which was unpleasant but at least it didn't last very long. It started when my throat was all scratchy on lumo...

Ethiolo, where my wonderful neighbor Tatiana lives, is about 5 or 7 kilometers away from Salémata.  I don’t know how far it is exactly, ...

Now that the rainy season is long over and even the cold season is beginning to peter out and heat up, people are doing a lot of grass-clear...

When I walk from my hut to get water (or go to the boutique, or buy a bean sandwich) I usually walk through this field, next to the Sofidete...

It's been a busy week or so, and now I''m headed back to village for a few days. I'll be back next week to help welcome th...

So, last week when we got on the Niokolo bus from Kédougou to Dakar, a very nice man sitting in the row behind us handed over these disposab...

The BBC recently posted a slideshow about gold mining in Senegal , relatively close to where I live. There's also a  BBC video on gold m...

Since the start of the rainy season I've expanded my list of things that I consider "bike-able" to include rock fields, sand p...

I'm off to help out with a youth camp in Dindefelo , a village about 50 kilometers away from the city of Kedougou. I'll be back to ...

Salémata is about 80 kilometers down a red dirt road from Kédougou; in a Peace Corps Land Rover it takes about two hours, but in a mini-bus ...

So, everything's been pretty good lately, except for the recent lack of internet access and our road being flooded on and off for most o...

Now that PST is over the six of us who are moving to to Kédougou had to drive down in sept-places ("seven-seats") station wagons, ...