Senegal | Sun Apr 11, 2010 | Views: 2240

This was my first week in Mbam. The rest of the student went to Mbam the previous Thursday but I joined them late because I was recovering from malaria. Anyways the week went pretty well for our project. Our project is focusing on sacred sites and ecotourism in Mbam. Our group consists of Alassane, Max and me. We are going to put up signs and …

Thor
Senegal Spring 2010

Yoff, Senegal | Thu Apr 01, 2010 | Views: 3081

I am sitting in my dark room under my mosquito net just about to leave for the village. Beyonce’s ‘Halo’ is playing outside my room. Before that, it was the one Youssu Ndour song that plays on repeat everywhere I go, followed by the tantalizing vocals of Celine Dion. No one appreciates her more than the people of Senegal. I wish I could share all of my adventures (The Senegalese wedding, …

Gcmoore
Senegal 2010

Senegal | Thu Mar 25, 2010 | Views: 661

      So, apparently wrestling is bigger that soccer in Senegal! Every person we spoke to about going to the wrestling match told us not to and that is was too dangerous. Naturally I was really excited! We arrived at the stadium with 3 staff members, and two of Josh's senegalese brothers for protection. We decided to get there about 1:30, and with the main match starting at seven it was …

welsar19
Wrestling

Yoff, Senegal | Wed Feb 17, 2010 | Views: 491

So week 3 was particularly interesting. We were told we were going to go on an overnight to a rural village about 3 hours away called Louly. We boarded a bus in the morning and drove a very long way. We stopped probably every 20-30 minutes and we constantly asked to buy things, the man would get out check the car and we would continue driving. as we drove for …

welsar19
Week 3

Yoff, Senegal | Tue Feb 16, 2010 | Views: 748

Its been a while since my last entry because so much has happened since I wrote last and feel like I needed quite a bit of time to soak everything up and decypher my feelings about this whole trip. The trip was really put into perspective and why I decided to come here after taking a 2 day trip to Louly village where we would investigate and look at their …

joshuabingham
Trip to Louly Village