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7 Feb - DakarToday was a maintenance day. I went with Tim, our engineer, back to the airport where Tim worked on a few minor issues and I cleaned up the helicopter a bit. When I got back to the hotel, I hooked Posted by drewgagne in The Liberian Express | Feb 8, 2012
6 Feb - Dakhla to Dakar in the dustPerdon a los habla-espanoles, no me dio tiempo de traducir mi reporte de hoy...lo ajustara ya que tenga mas tiempo. Today was a tough day for flying, and we learned that the forecasts in Africa are just as reliable as Posted by drewgagne in The Liberian Express | Feb 7, 2012
Cold season, what cold season?! ...and politicsYes, indeed, cold season, there is no cold season… ‘Winter’ probably kicked in around mid November. This means that we started to sleep inside the house rather than out in the yard, because it gets chilly around 4am. Everyone else Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Dec 31, 2011
Research? What research?!SORRY for the delay, several concerned family members have been convinced that I have fallen off the edge of the earth… I guess I have been busy, although not in quite the way I had hoped! The past 2 months Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Dec 31, 2011
Sheep heads, scorpions and other joys of fieldworkApologies apologies for not writing this thing for…3 months! shock, it shouldn’t have been that long. Basically I went to my fieldsite for 6 weeks and although I could have gone to the town hall and gone on the internet, Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Oct 7, 2011
PoliticsThis has been a rather apolitical blog so far, so should probably fill you all in on the current situation, seeing as it may have hit the news – although I’m not actually sure it hit the Anglophone news as Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Jul 15, 2011
Down SouthI’m back in Dakar! I’ve been back over a week really but have been very busy with writing up results and so on so a bit delayed. My stay in the south was – as you can imagine – no Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Jul 15, 2011
A taste of pulaar cultureOn the last weekend before the end of my pulaar classes, my teacher extremely kindly invited me to her home town of Thiès, to meet her family and go to an evening organised to celebrate the first birthday of a Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Jun 3, 2011
The Grandmothers of Velingara (II)Given the high prevalence of female circumcision, early marriage, teenage pregnancy and high levels of dropping out of school, GMP’s strategy has been to change community ideas around these issues, in favour of girls’ development. Although they acknowledg Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Jun 3, 2011
The Grandmothers of Velingara (I)Now that pulaar classes are over, I am working full steam ahead on getting my research project finalised for my two weeks in the south, for my internship. I’ve told quite a few people about this, but it merits a Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Jun 3, 2011
This really is the last time, I promiseOk this really is the last time that I will mention wrestling or wrestlers of any shape or form, I promise, but this was pretty special. For my birthday my friends managed to get a ‘meeting’ with EUMEU SEN – Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | May 11, 2011
SUNDAY - MAY 1 - LATERDAKAR, SENEGAL, AFRICA In the afternoon of Sunday, May 1st (Senegal time) we watched the Navy Destroyer leave the harbor in Dakar. We awoke in the morning to hear the Posted by Swenigale in Serenity 3 | May 2, 2011
SUNDAY - MAY 1 DAKAR, SENEGAL, AFRICA We pulled into port before sunrise, and docked right next to the U.S. Navy! What a wonderful sight. [img=http://photos.travellerspoint Posted by Swenigale in Serenity 3 | May 2, 2011
What wedding?It is the day of the royal wedding and in Dakar you just wouldn’t know. I am very upset, I feel like across the ocean everyone is having a big party with bunting, and sausages and cheese+pineapple on sticks without Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Apr 29, 2011
More wrestlingThis Monday was Easter Monday, I did nothing Easter related but because it was a public holiday the Senegalese – you guessed it - went to the wrestling! I also went this time, so can say it was pretty much Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Apr 26, 2011
Independence DayLast Monday 4th April was Independence Day, a national holiday. My language teacher said that in the past people generally had the day off work, and would go to the centre of town to party. In the past decade though, Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Apr 17, 2011
A shout-out to my fans...Just a big thank you to everyone who is reading this blog!! I really didn't expect people would, but I'm getting lots of feedback and it's really nice to know. But let's see how enthusiastic you are after a year Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Apr 16, 2011
Food *glorious* foodDavid recently asked me if people in Senegal eat lots of boiled rice and fish, like they do in Namibia. The answer is…yes, hell yes. I should point out that one of the main reasons I wanted to live in a Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Apr 4, 2011
Home from homeHere are pictures of my cushy apartment, in Sacre Coeur district, 10 mins walk from the language school. It really is rather nice, but I am paying a fortune for it (about £350 a month – similar to Brighton prices) Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Apr 4, 2011
The joys of pulaarIt’s a been a month almost exactly since I arrived, and after the initial week of excitement things have quietened down and I am mainly settling into more of a routine. I have spent 3 weeks at the [[http://www.acibaobab.org/|ACI Baobab]] language Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Mar 22, 2011
ArrivedHello all! I have been here 2 weeks already, but as you will have noticed, have been somewhat poor on the communication front. This is for several reasons which I’ll explain. So be prepared for a flurry of backdated blog entries Posted by pikku_myy in Al Rihlah | Mar 6, 2011
Dakar to New York – Going Home 4 months, 10 countries and, 49 cities later, we were on our way home. Partly reluctant, partly just yearning for normalcy, less stress, fewer insects and food cooked without Maggi. On the plane back home, we tried to summarize the trip. Posted by Kristi D in African Dreams | Jan 1, 2011
Île de Goree - Where Africa Meets the CaribbeanBlink, and blink again. If you didn't know better, you would think you were in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The cobble-stoned streets, the pastel-colored colonial houses and swaying palm trees make Île de Goree look like a twin sister Posted by Kristi D in African Dreams | Jan 1, 2011
Palmarin - A Deserted Beach at the End of the Road"How do we get back to Dakar?" we wondered as soon as we got off the sept-place taxi. Palmarin, the small seaside village on the border of the Siné-Saloum Delta looked like the end of the world – a boring Posted by Kristi D in African Dreams | Jan 1, 2011
Mbour - A Fish Market, African StyleI could almost hear a piano softly playing in the background. The scene unfolding was eerily reminiscent of the movie, The Piano, set in New Zealand in 1850. Of course, this was 2010 in Senegal, and the rhythm of life Posted by Kristi D in African Dreams | Jan 1, 2011

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