Well some of the pics are from the end of the training village. This is the end of what we call PST in which pre service training is done and we are making our way to our permanent sites and so thus we went had our host families over for a family farewell at the training site for a party. We than went to the american embassy for swearing in and now everyone is splitting up and going all over Senegal to work at their permanent sites, the first group that is going south of the Gambia just left this morning [View Full Entry]

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Embassy pics [View Full Entry]

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Last minute pictures of me with my host family. [View Full Entry]

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Last month in Senegal the journey from the hotel to the airport to the training center in Thies. These pictures are all from a volunteer named Molly who is in my training village which will be posted on the next blog. My training village is in Mboro. [View Full Entry]

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Mboro training village with pular and french training villages [View Full Entry]

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Mboro part 2 after ramadan and korite which ramadan is when all muslims can't eat during the day except for non-muslims, the sick, and the kids. Korite is the party at the end where everyone dresses in their best gear which is bou-bous, some of these pics are from class and others are from a beach party that we had and others at korite. Some of these pics I am sick, the one with the bou-bou the others didn't text me that they were coming so I was fully asleep when they told me to put on the bou-bou so I [View Full Entry]

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Just wanted to let everyone know I am safe and sound in Senegal here are a couple of pics and make sure to subscribe to my blog so you won't have to keep coming back to this website. If you put your e-mail in than you will get automatic updates. [View Full Entry]

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This is a video I took way back when we left our training villages. Six months later i finally found some high speed internet to upload it. Its the send off party the village put together on our last day. Hope you like it. Also the file is too big to upload here, but here is a link to another video for a video pen pal project a friend in the states and I are working on. https://download.yousendit.com/TTZuRE9oZEs3N0EwTVE9PQ Best, Chirs [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys sorry for the long delay. Things can move slowly out here and by “things” I mean me. I’m so excited to hear you are interested in learning about Senegal and communicating with Senegalese students your age. So here is where we are at. I visited a school in the village of Pambal. It may be hard to find on a map but it’s pretty close to Thies, which is one of the bigger cities in Senegal. Pambal is pretty rural so most of the families there raise crops like peanuts, beans and millet. The head master of the school, [View Full Entry]

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I am only a few hours out of Thiafaithe and I already miss the place. A small Catholic Serere village of only 32 families, what I lacked in size it made up in character. It had been our home on and off for the last six weeks as we grew accustomed to culture and struggled with the language. I could not think of a better place for my first real exposure to Senegalese hospitality. There, you will never go hungry and there will always be a seat waiting come afternoon tea. Thiafaithe has is magic, not just from the fortune tellers [View Full Entry]

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