Category Archives: senegal
Just another story featuring a shirtless woman
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. … Continue reading
Snippets of Love #4
(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, … Continue reading
Entroducing an Intelligent Senephile*
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 … Continue reading
Winter Has Got Me Feeling Like Shita
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 … Continue reading
The Things We Pack
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 – … Continue reading
Tell Me You Love Me in African
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 … Continue reading
