Posted in daily, dreams, friends, hard work, MadCity Marathon, marathon, running, senegal, The Book, words, writing on Apr 14th, 2008
Sometimes life’s biggest disappointments are tomorrow’s opportunities dressed up in wolves’s clothing. Last week I officially changed my marathon event from 26.2 to 13.1 and with a heavy heart (not to mention legs) tried to begin a modified training schedule. After only three days of consecutive running, my foot ached again and the thought of [...]
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Posted in love, senegal on Apr 10th, 2008
(This is the fourth entry in the Snippets of Love Series.) We sat in the kitchen, two strangers, looking through his family photos. Beams of the afternoon sun were streaming through holes in the thatched roof. One ray of sunlight, which had been shining on us this morning, had shifted to the other side of [...]
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Posted in daily, languages, senegal, words on Feb 27th, 2008
The internet is such an amazing tool that has opened my world wider than imaginable. One of my favorite recent connections made via “le net” is with a fellow linguist who has created a website dedicated to learning Wolof. How cool is that?! Why not expand your own vocabulary today and learn 10 Random Wolof [...]
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Posted in senegal, travel, words on Feb 1st, 2008
The last couple days I’ve been fighting off the winter blues. The day after my birthday was a particular let down because people who had greeted me with squeals, showered me with attention, and wished me well were back to their normal modus operandi: treating me just like everyone else. In addition, it has been [...]
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Today I spoke to the Sauk Prairie Rotary Club in Praire du Sac about the Ambassadorial Scholarship, Project Japale Goune, and the gobs of gratitude I have for Rotary. I couldn’t have asked for a better day to travel – the snow had been cleared from the roads but still hung on everything else. Farmers [...]
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Posted in daily, senegal on Nov 24th, 2007
Its tragically hilarious how ignorant Americans are about the world’s geography. Since Diene moved here, I have watched the evolution of his answer to the question: “Where are you from?” At first, the dialogue went something like this. American: “Where are you from?” Diene: “Senegal,” American: Blank stare. Diene: “Its in West Africa.” American” Perking [...]
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An expression of gratitude for all that is good in my life.