This Senegalese Life

There are a lot of huts in various states of disrepair around. In other parts of the country you'll see mostly apartment buildings...

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 ...

It's hut renovation and construction season here in Salémata, and people are building huts all over the place. These new huts are near ...

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...

The castle of Salémata is owned by a very creepy old French man who I suspect can't go back to Europe because of his InterPol rap sheet....

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

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...

I haven't had any Mefloquine-influenced dreams yet, but that was what I wanted to call this blog. I reconsidered after seeing that the d...