This Senegalese Life

After our  World Map Mural went so well the director of the Primary School asked me to do another mural, an outdoor one, to beautify the s...

A couple weeks ago my neighbor Katie had a birthday and since she'd been traveling a lot recently decided to have a party out in villa...

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...

Until just a few years ago the Kédougou was just a somewhat forgotten Department within the larger Region of Tambacounda. Now Kédougou has...

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...

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, ...

I'm off to village and am planning to spend New Year's Eve in Ethiolo with my friend and her Bassari host family. The Bassari around...

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

Honestly, before coming to Senegal I had only a vague idea of what peanuts  looked like before they were roasted and salted or ground up for...