This Senegalese Life

During Pre-Service Training (PST) the Peace Corps Trainees (PCTs) get to go on a Volunteer Visit (VV) to see the villages where they'll...

All the PeaceCare team members and the PCVs took turns writing entries for the PeaceCare Blog   and this is the thing I wrote for my day. ...

I spent Christmas in Popenguine, a little beach town just south of Dakar, it was wonderful, and here are a few of the highlights.  ...

Ramadan is  different in different places , but in my part of Senegal Ramadan was from August 1st to August 30th. During Ramadan Muslims (i...

Thiéboudienne , the national dish of Senegal, is basically fish, vegetables and tomato sauce cooked with spices and served over rice. We had...

For breakfast on my first morning in the village my host mother served me half of a heavily buttered baguette and a mug of hot, milky, vague...

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...