This Senegalese Life

So far the month February has been a veritable festival of meetings. Things got started with a Peer Support Network (PSN) workshop preparat...

My training group and I had our Close-of-Service (COS) conference last week and I now I have an official COS date (May 1st, 2013!)  and a l...

I like to journal. Or, rather, I like to glue paper-type things into the small stack of booklets that have collectively become my journal....

While he was visiting my village my brother and I walked over to the market area and on our way back we saw some boys playing under the tr...

The kids on our compound are really adorable. Much more so than most kids. They do have their disgusting moments - the runny noses, the pee...

After we got back to Senegal we headed out to Lompoul, a little village near the coast just a few hours outside Dakar. On the way there I ...

After our mom flew back to the U.S. my brother and I went to Cape Verde, a little Portuguese-and-Creole-speaking island nation off the coas...