This Senegalese Life

Neem is a tree that grows all over the place here, and you can make a natural mosquito repellent from it's leaves. I helped with a How-T...

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 ...

My host mother Mariama, my neighbor and  tokora (person with a same name) Adama, my host mother Saliou Njai, and baby Diabou shelling karite...

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...

This is the view of the main cooking/eating/lounging area of the Souaré compound. My hut is off to the right. I spend a lot of time sitting ...

It's been a busy morning, but I got all my paperwork printed off, picked up most of the stuff on my shopping list, and am ready to head ...

So. I have been living in Salémata for almost three weeks now, and things are going pretty well. I have one host father, three host mothers,...