Yoff, Senegal | Wed Feb 24, 2010 | Views: 246

Last week was a bit crazy. We started planning our projects in Yoff and got into groups and started planning them. The students were a bit upset that Brooke, one of the staff members gave her notice to leave in three weeks and with a few other excommunications. However the staff was very receptive and things seems to be running smoothly now. By the end of …

Thor
Senegal Spring 2010

Yoff, Senegal | Wed Feb 17, 2010 | Views: 43

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: 53

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

Yoff, Senegal | Tue Feb 16, 2010 | Views: 510

Things are so mixed up in my mind that I feel no point in trying to describe things chronologically so I will just ramble in hopeful entertainment. Excuse any bad writing, my mind is stuck somewhere in between French, Wolof, and English.  Sometimes new words just fit better. In the past 24 hours I have experienced true market mayhem. I am sitting in my oasis of a mosquito net, sweating profusely. …

Gcmoore
Senegal 2010

Washington, United States | Mon Jan 25, 2010 | Views: 70

Hello Everyone! First of all my name is Joshua Bingham and am soon to embark on what will be a very exciting adventure for Senegal, Africa in 2 days from now living in an eco village. On one hand this is quite exciting and hard to fathom, and on the other hand it is nerve racking because of the fact that I really have no idea what in the world I …

joshuabingham
2 days to lift off