Archives: December 2005
Tue Dec 06, 2005
Au Revoir
Because I have less than one week left here in Senegal, I have been trying to squeeze as much family time in as possible. I have made such wonderful relationships with my family I feel, honestly, like one of them. Even though I still have those days when I’m so tired I feel like one of those clueless exchange students, my family spoils me and is patient with me. My father, Djibbi, invites me to help with the study group at night when he takes in a large group of all his nieces, nephews, cousins, etc, for French review, and my mom, Ouillie, really wants me to learn how too cook Senegalese style.
Thus, I made lunch with my mom over the weekend and she taught me how to make Yassa
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Sun Dec 04, 2005
Coming to an end
It is Sunday, Dec. 4. I have no idea how I find myself here, having come to the end of this grand adventure. In less than a week, I will be leaving Senegalese soil. Leaving with no idea of how or when (if ever) I will return. I wish I could wrap up this weblog neatly, with some type of deep insight into my experiences here that would benefit everyone who is reading this, some sense of closure that might apply to your lives as well, but that is not possible right now. I know that my life has been deeply affected by this experience, but in ways that I will probably not fully comprehend until months from now. So instead, once again, I offer to you my scattered thoughts. These are the things I have coursing through my mind right now, the last remnants of thoughts that I still want to share with the rest of the world. I ask you, if you will, to bear with my disorganized self one more time...
The thing that is foremost on my mind right now is how much I will miss the other students on this program. Last night most of us Americans went out to dinner in Dakar, to celebrate our last weekend here, and I realized how much I have really fallen in love with some of the people here, how I have come to depend on them as my reference point for processing my world. In all this time that I have been thinking about leaving Senegal, I don't think I had fully internalized that I do not go to school with the other Americans in the States, that I will have to say goodbye to them as well (though perhaps less permanently). So yes, I realized that I have not mentioned them all that much on this blog, but I do not know how I would have made it through this experience without them and I just wanted to put that out there.
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Au Revoir
Because I have less than one week left here in Senegal, I have been trying to squeeze as much family time in as possible. I have made such wonderful relationships with my family I feel, honestly, like one of them. Even though I still have those days when I’m so tired I feel like one of those clueless exchange students, my family spoils me and is patient with me. My father, Djibbi, invites me to help with the study group at night when he takes in a large group of all his nieces, nephews, cousins, etc, for French review, and my mom, Ouillie, really wants me to learn how too cook Senegalese style.
Thus, I made lunch with my mom over the weekend and she taught me how to make Yassa
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Coming to an end
It is Sunday, Dec. 4. I have no idea how I find myself here, having come to the end of this grand adventure. In less than a week, I will be leaving Senegalese soil. Leaving with no idea of how or when (if ever) I will return. I wish I could wrap up this weblog neatly, with some type of deep insight into my experiences here that would benefit everyone who is reading this, some sense of closure that might apply to your lives as well, but that is not possible right now. I know that my life has been deeply affected by this experience, but in ways that I will probably not fully comprehend until months from now. So instead, once again, I offer to you my scattered thoughts. These are the things I have coursing through my mind right now, the last remnants of thoughts that I still want to share with the rest of the world. I ask you, if you will, to bear with my disorganized self one more time...
The thing that is foremost on my mind right now is how much I will miss the other students on this program. Last night most of us Americans went out to dinner in Dakar, to celebrate our last weekend here, and I realized how much I have really fallen in love with some of the people here, how I have come to depend on them as my reference point for processing my world. In all this time that I have been thinking about leaving Senegal, I don't think I had fully internalized that I do not go to school with the other Americans in the States, that I will have to say goodbye to them as well (though perhaps less permanently). So yes, I realized that I have not mentioned them all that much on this blog, but I do not know how I would have made it through this experience without them and I just wanted to put that out there.
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