This Senegalese Life

I spent  Korité , the feast day celebrating the end of Ramadan, in Salémata with my host family. I woke up, puttered around, got my complet...

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...

A couple weeks ago my neighbor Katie had a birthday and since she'd been traveling a lot recently decided to have a party out in villa...

Bowls, like buckets, are a big things around here. We eat all our meals out of bowls, food is kept warm in lidded bowls, gifts and purchase...

On the afternoon of this summer's solstice I kept getting sidetracked by the striking blueness of the sky and how everything just looke...

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...

Until just a few years ago the Kédougou was just a somewhat forgotten Department within the larger Region of Tambacounda. Now Kédougou has...