This Senegalese Life

I spent  Korité , the feast day celebrating the end of Ramadan, in Salémata with my host family. I woke up, puttered around, got my complet...

As I may have mentioned before, traveling is by far my least favorite part of living in Senegal. Most of the time Peace Corps Volunteers...

This past week I spent a few days at the Thiès Training Center, helping with a few sessions during the latest training groups' In-Servi...

As many people know, Peace Corps Volunteers love to describe in unsolicited detail all the positively revolting things that have gone into...

Diarrhea is no fun. Many things can contribute to high levels of diarrheal diseases, including improper hand-washing (i.e., without soap) a...

After our  World Map Mural went so well the director of the Primary School asked me to do another mural, an outdoor one, to beautify the s...

Ever since I moved to Salémata I've been talking about how I should  plant a little garden or my own, but something always seemed to co...