This Senegalese Life

During my Pre-Service Training (PST) time crawled by so slowly, each day seeming longer and more sweltering than the one before. Twenty-sev...

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...

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...

We all went to Tambacounda for Halloween, and the Tamba PCVs did an excellent job of decoarting and cooking for a crowd - there were impress...

Tomorrow morning I'll be headed back to village to help wrap up cervical cancer screening training stuff and to finish final drafts of m...

There used to be a big mirror in the Regional House shower, but someone knocked it off the wall and broke it. Last month our plastic house...

(I love pens almost as much as I love crayons.) I got some really lovely paper for my birthday and was able to send out some nice thank...