This Senegalese Life

There have been several very fancy things in my life this past week. The first one was Tambaween, which is like Halloween but is hosted by ...

From St Louis I headed down to the Peer Support Network (PSN) meeting in Thiès, at the Training Center. Peace Corps/Senegal’s PSN is still ...

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...

After the  Health/EE Summit my friend  Leah  and I went up to Dakar and had a wonderful time visiting  Rachel  & Emily at their complete...

…and it’s going well. More on that later. Right now I’m signing in to Skype so that I can chat with my Gramma.

I've been in village for the last week or so, and things went well, as usual. My host family, the Souarés, are doing pretty well -- ther...

At this very moment PCV Eric and I are stuck at the Bedik Hotel in Kedougou, eating caramel pops and waiting until it lets up enough for ...

So, everything's been pretty good lately, except for the recent lack of internet access and our road being flooded on and off for most o...

If you're curious about  the Kédougou Region , where I live, or the  Pulaar  language, which I'm still learning, do check out these ...

Right now I'm in Thi ès, starting my In-Service Training (IST) on technical aspects of the projects I'll be working on as a Peace Co...

A few weeks ago I was listening to a podcast about a lady who wrote a book about Obama's mom, and it occurred to me that I was about to ...

I was sick yesterday. Also the internet went down, then the power went out, and I spent the entire day at the Regional House, looking green ...

Bad news. This isn't actually my laptop, but you get the idea. Thanks to Senegal's wildly unreliable power grid and all the rec...

Tomorrow morning I install at site. I am the only one left from the Kédougou, so in the morning I will get up, load the mid-sized mountain o...

I'm headed out to Darou in a few minutes, and I'll be back to the center (and internet access) on Sunday evening.  Hope you all ha...

"It is going well." I had a pretty good week in Darou, my training village, and am back at the Thiès Training Center for the nex...

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...