Hammock session apres lunch at the PC center
from left: Braiden, Lauren and Joey, Kim at Pamandas
Meg and me
Kickin it in Mbour
My walk to school in the morning ( although I just got my bike today, sweeeeeeeeeet)Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Hey there 
all! How are we doing? After many weeks of procrastination I'm finally trying to get it together to update my blog. Please forgive problems with format as I'm pretty new at this.
pic: my Jakanke class/classroom: Me, Lamine (prof), Josh, Dan
As for the most exciting news I have found out my site placement! I'll be living in the southern region of Kedegou in a decent sized village about 80k north east of the city. The village is called Khosanto and has about 1300 people along with both a primary and secondary school. This will be the first time that PC Senegal will attempt to work with students and teachers at the secondary school level and I'm extremely excited to be on that forefront. I also can't express fully enough how excited I am about my region. It gets the most rainfall of any in the country and as a result has the most lush and fertile areas. Kedegou is also home to Senegal's largest national park in which one will find tumbling waterfalls and any number of monkeys, warthogs; snakes, and even hippos. The down
sides are obviously a higher prevalence of Malaria and other illnesses, mambas, fungus, being about as far from Dakar as possible, but we won't talk about these too much if for no other reason than maintaining my Mother's sanity.
In more immediate news we spent our first weekend out of Thies last week and had a wonderful, relaxing time on the beach in the small town of Mbour, just south of Dakar. It was incredibly beautiful, both the water and weather temps were perfect; a much needed break.
pic: Djibril, Adrien, and Brenden eating lunch at PC center
Other than that I'm really just working on my garden and tree nursery and of course struggling through Jaxanke classes. The days are long but the weeks are flying by and I'm sure I'll be down south before I know it, inshalla.
As far as the blog goes please let other folks know about it and also subscribe so you get an email when I update (follow the directions of the wonderful Austin Evers at the bottom of the blog for more info in this department, he's my tech tutor, thanks Aust).
Alhamdoulilahi
Willie(Djibi)
pics:
getting down at the Tam Tam fete,
Working the garden at Greg's village outside Bakel during my "demystification"
My sis Fanta
cousin Ama and me
all! How are we doing? After many weeks of procrastination I'm finally trying to get it together to update my blog. Please forgive problems with format as I'm pretty new at this.pic: my Jakanke class/classroom: Me, Lamine (prof), Josh, Dan
As for the most exciting news I have found out my site placement! I'll be living in the southern region of Kedegou in a decent sized village about 80k north east of the city. The village is called Khosanto and has about 1300 people along with both a primary and secondary school. This will be the first time that PC Senegal will attempt to work with students and teachers at the secondary school level and I'm extremely excited to be on that forefront. I also can't express fully enough how excited I am about my region. It gets the most rainfall of any in the country and as a result has the most lush and fertile areas. Kedegou is also home to Senegal's largest national park in which one will find tumbling waterfalls and any number of monkeys, warthogs; snakes, and even hippos. The down
sides are obviously a higher prevalence of Malaria and other illnesses, mambas, fungus, being about as far from Dakar as possible, but we won't talk about these too much if for no other reason than maintaining my Mother's sanity.In more immediate news we spent our first weekend out of Thies last week and had a wonderful, relaxing time on the beach in the small town of Mbour, just south of Dakar. It was incredibly beautiful, both the water and weather temps were perfect; a much needed break.
pic: Djibril, Adrien, and Brenden eating lunch at PC center
Other than that I'm really just working on my garden and tree nursery and of course struggling through Jaxanke classes. The days are long but the weeks are flying by and I'm sure I'll be down south before I know it, inshalla.
As far as the blog goes please let other folks know about it and also subscribe so you get an email when I update (follow the directions of the wonderful Austin Evers at the bottom of the blog for more info in this department, he's my tech tutor, thanks Aust).
Alhamdoulilahi
Willie(Djibi)
pics:getting down at the Tam Tam fete,
Working the garden at Greg's village outside Bakel during my "demystification"
My sis Fanta
cousin Ama and me
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