This Senegalese Life

I've been having cell phone network connection problems (or no  reseau , as they say here) off and on for a few weeks. It's been b...

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...

One of the very first things that happened when I arrived in Senegal was that I started taking anti- malarial  medication. People who gr...

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 ...

After my Mid-Service stuff I had a couple free days so I headed up to St Louis for JazzFest, an annual music festival of jazz musicians ...

I was just up in Dakar for my mid-service medical appointments. About a year into service PCVs are supposed to come up to Med to have a ch...

My American name is LaRocha ("la-rock-a"), but my Senegalese name is Adama. I have a number of tokorabe  (people with my same na...