Song of the moment: The underdog by Spoon
Book of the month: A coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Amber
I decided that it would be a good time to start trying to do a few more blogs since I will be going to site where the Internet is uncertain. They have been trying to get the Internet at my site for a while so it might be in by the time arrive. Since we have last spoken my stage took a trip to a National park called Popenguine. It was amazing; there were cliffs to the left and large rock formations to the right. We had a house on the beach. It cost me 7,500 CFA for a place to stay, dinner, breakfast, and beer. That is the equivalent to $15, what a country. This coming week I will be going to Dakar to check out what the city is like. I also went to a wedding. It was a Seereer wedding which is different then most, beer and it lasted 3 days. There was a lot of music and dancing. The dancing here is so crazy. It’s funny today a new person has showed up in the house. Apparently he is my cousin and he lives with us. It is fun because I get a new family member every few weeks moving into the house.
This past weekend I went to Dakar and got to blow off a little steam. The first day we arrived we walked around and looked for a hotel. After we found one we ended up getting a room for the three people which was a little problem since there was six of us. After devising several plans to sneak into the room with six people we decided to just greet every person who worked in the hotel and use Wolof to communicate. It worked like a charm, we had no trouble keeping six people in a room, and what is even better is the fact that noise is not an issue in Senegal. People are always loud. In Dakar we did a lot of club hopping which involved being the only people at the bars along with a few French soldiers. The second day in Dakar we went to the American club which sounds lame, but it was some of the most fun I have had in a while. We swam and played beach volleyball for a few hours. It was all-free, but peculiar to see little kids speaking English.
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I see you have discovered Spoon, amazing band, their new cd is even better than their other cd's. i really like my little japanese cigarette case. oh yea, sitafal is pooja, not some weird random person, well pooja is that too.
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