This Senegalese Life

This year more people than usual opted to stay in Kedougou for Thanksgiving and we were lucky to have a really good group at the house. I h...

I spent  Korité , the feast day celebrating the end of Ramadan, in Salémata with my host family. I woke up, puttered around, got my complet...

There haven't been many big holidays lately, but in January there was the Grand  Magal, when many members of the Mouride brotherhood ma...

It’s been a busy few weeks (month?) over here. I kind of can’t believe it’s February. I knew (in general and in Peace Corps) about the wh...

Tatiana was kind enough to host us for a little New Year’s Eve celebration in Ethiolo, the Bassari village where she lives. Two of the new ...