I realized I should probably post
as I am officially half way done with my 6-month adventure. I only have one month left in Senegal, which
in its own right is shocking and difficult to wrap my head around. So much has happened in the past three
months, and yet I feel like I just arrived yesterday. I wont get nostalgic now; you can look
forward to that at a later date.
However, I do want to say that this place has become my home in the past
three months and I fully intend to live up these next 4 weeks in order to say
that I left Dakar in style.
These past
two weeks I haven’t left Dakar on any excursions and that might be why I came
to realize just how attached I am to this city.
I have spent the past two weeks recognizing how little class time I have
left, sitting on a cliff on the most Western Point of Africa, visiting schools
and adult literacy classes with my Education and Culture class, seeing the
famous Senegal Baobab Orchestra at a private Senegalese school function and
doing some Senegalese Salsa while there, drinking laît with my neighbors (a
drink made of milk, mint, cheese, and sugar, it sounds weird but tastes like
Christmas in a cup), helping my host family during a giant spring cleaning
endeavor, learning how to make Mafé with my host mom and aunt (my favorite
Senegalese dish), learning how to make Bouye Juice (my favorite Senegalese
drink) with my American friends, planting trees along the highway by our school
with our CIEE program and the neighborhood Senegalese community, stargazing on
an island while listening to a Nigerian band, walking through Dakar’s nature
park (Parc de Hann) and finally, enjoying and cherishing every moment I have
left here. Here are some pictures from the last two weeks:
The Most Western Point of Africa
The Baobab Orchestra
Learning how to make Mafé
My 3 year old niece Rahoya
Making Bouye Juice
Tree Planting across from our school
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