Here are some pics from my family members in Podor, I live in a house with two roommates that are in their twenties who work at the credit mutual, but the house is owned by a guy named Baba Diack who owns a hardware store which has come in handy since I am an ag volunteer. He has a wife and two small kids but than their are other young people that live there as well which I still haven't figured how they are related or not. Their is still a caste system here sort of as you are connected to [View Full Entry]

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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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