This Senegalese Life

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

So, a lot of people in America are into yoga these days, and Bikram Yoga , where people do all that stretching and posing and whatnot in a...

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...

To celebrate Thanksgiving I decided to make the trip up North, to Ndioum, where some volunteers were hosting a big Thanksgiving dinner. It...

So it's  Tabaski  time in Senegal. that means that day before yesterday I gave my family a whole bunch of onions, Maggi bouillon, and ve...

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 radio show This American Life has an excellent episode called  Notes on Camp , and it's totally work a listen. Here are a few mor...

My host mother Mariama, my neighbor and  tokora (person with a same name) Adama, my host mother Saliou Njai, and baby Diabou shelling karite...