This Senegalese Life

My American name is LaRocha ("la-rock-a"), but my Senegalese name is Adama. I have a number of tokorabe  (people with my same na...

At the end of every month there is a Growth Monitoring (AKA Baby-Weighing) and Vaccination Day at the Salémata Health Center, and it is pre...

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. ...

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...

A few weeks ago I was listening to a podcast about a lady who wrote a book about Obama's mom, and it occurred to me that I was about to ...

Neem is a tree that grows all over the place here, and you can make a natural mosquito repellent from it's leaves. I helped with a How-T...

This is the view of the main cooking/eating/lounging area of the Souaré compound. My hut is off to the right. I spend a lot of time sitting ...

It's been a busy morning, but I got all my paperwork printed off, picked up most of the stuff on my shopping list, and am ready to head ...

For most of last week a trainee up north thought she was constantly telling her homestay family how much she liked things, but she was actua...

Today we got our language group assignments (which will pretty much determine the region where we'll be placed, and I will be learning a...