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| Well, I am leaving for Rwanda in two days (on the third). The flight will be a nightmare, with back-to-back overnights, one to London and one to Nairobi. It should go well though. We will only be there ten days, a few of which will be occupied by traveling. There are five of us going--myself, Dad, and three of his students. They are working on projects relating to water supply for rural villages, and I think I will be translating French to English and helping out as best I can. We are going to see gorillas!
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| More travel this past weekend! I went to Diourbel to see a friend on Friday, then on Saturday met up with some other friends in Saly, a resort town not far from Dakar. It was nothing like the real Senegal, but I had a lot of fun sitting on the beach. Tomorrow we leave for Saint Louis on a trip organized (and paid for!) by the school.
Classes have been slowly ending, and I now only have two left, and I will go to my internship only three more times. I am starting to feel very ready to go home!
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| Well, Touba was interesting. We did a tour of the Grand Mosque and the big library that they have there, and then left after a couple of hours. It was the hottest I have been in Senegal (except maybe for sept place rides). Saturday night we went out to a soiree with Molly's host brother, and then Sunday was a beach day. It was the first weekend that I have had in Dakar in a long time.
Jacques' relatives are leaving this evening. We all went out to dinner last night.
I am going to have a busy weekend it sounds like. I'm going to Diourbel to visit a friend, and then I'll go to Saly with Virginie, my friend from my internship. | | |
| Not much new, except that we are going to go to Touba, the Murid capital, tomorrow. The Murids are the largest of the Muslim brotherhoods here.
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| For Easter, Drew, Jenna, Naomi and I went to Mont Rolland, which is Odile's home village, with Marie Suzanne to stay with her parents (Odile's brother and his wife). I enjoyed it a lot. It was very rural, with chickens but no power or plumbing. There were a million cousins visiting for the holiday, and we mostly hung out. Mostly we sat in a circle with some people drumming on buckets and others going into the middle and dancing. We also ate a great deal, and drank palm wine, which was so bad I couldn't handle more than a sip (even with 4 sugar cubes mixed into my cup). We went to mass a couple times, and on Sunday night there was a dance. We stayed there until 430 and then got up today at 630 to get a car back to Dakar. I'm exhausted, but it is nice to be back. Jacques' brother and his wife are coming in an hour or so to visit for a few days, so there will be even more tubaabs in the house this week! | | |
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