This Senegalese Life

My host aunt Hassanatou and her sons finally came back from summer vacation in Guinea (where she's from), my other host siblings came ...

It's my birthday today, and I've had a lovely time so far. I woke up and opened all the mail and packages that I picked up yesterd...

So, a little while back I (along with a whole slew of other PCVs and RPCVs) e-mailed the Stuff You Should Know podcast and asked for an epis...

This weekend I'm going to write a post all about In-Service Training and work stuff and what I've been up to and all that, but right...

Bad news. This isn't actually my laptop, but you get the idea. Thanks to Senegal's wildly unreliable power grid and all the rec...

Tomorrow morning I will be waking up extremely early to pile into a Peace Corps Land Cruiser for the long drive down to Kédougou for Volunte...

The day we left for our most recent trip to the villages was hot and fairly miserable. I'd gotten my obligatory rabies and hepatitis vac...