This Senegalese Life

I'm off to my village for language training, so I won't be posting (or e-mailing or Facebooking) for a couple weeks, but when I get ...

Thiéboudienne , the national dish of Senegal, is basically fish, vegetables and tomato sauce cooked with spices and served over rice. We had...

Just for the record, the preventative malaria medication that I'm taking does indeed cause surreal dreams. Not nightmares, just weirdly ...

For breakfast on my first morning in the village my host mother served me half of a heavily buttered baguette and a mug of hot, milky, vague...

"Toubab" means foreigner; everywhere I go a dozen little voices call out "Bonjour toubab! Toubab! Toubab!" and the brave...

"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...

Today we got our language group assignments (which will pretty much determine the region where we'll be placed, and I will be learning a...