This Senegalese Life

I am pleased to share my birthday with Marielle, another Health PCV from my training group, and this year we had a remarkably delicious bi...

I don't know what these things are called, but I call them mud wasps for obvious reasons, event though I'm pretty sure they're ...

So. Malaria. Basically, a person gets  malaria  from the bite of a mosquito infected with  Plasmodium  parasites . The parasites get int...

So, my toe scrape hewaled up quickly and nicely and this morning Little Jess, Tatiana, Jubal and I all biked in from Salémata  and now I...

On August 1st, 2011 I turned 28, Marielle turned 25, Switzerland turned 720, and a good time was had by all. On July 31st, after the SeneGAD...

The day before I left Salémata to come to Thiès for IST (In-Service Training) I was hanging out at the Catholic Mission - I'd been helpi...

The afternoon before I left my homestay in Darou I was lying on my bed, avoiding the heat of the day and gazing up at the wall. The window n...