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...

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...

Mango season is long over now, but there's been plenty of  laare  around for the past few weeks. Laare  ("la-ray") is the Pu...

Most evenings one of my host sisters or host moms will make gosi , a kind of rice porridge, to feed all the little kids (and me, sometimes...

Not long after I came to Senegal I was in a car with a few other PCVs, and we got to talking about what scents a Senegal-themed scented ca...

Typing "Celebration!" makes me think of  that creepy town in Florida , but this post is all about birthdays and festivals that h...

Sometimes it's the little differences that catch your eye. Is this some sort of retro-futuristic marketing ploy? Is this a thing in Ame...

Chrishaunakwanstice, Fancy Baking Day, Christmas Adam, White Elephant Night...  I love the holidays. And Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwaanza, and T...