Breezy Dakar

Hello again from Dakar, you may be asking yourself what is Michele doing in Dakar again? Well, I'm here for my host-sister's wedding which is this Saturday May 3rd. In addition to that I am beating the heat ofMali, it was getting unbearable there and I needed a break, I'm actually cold here in Senegal...

Let's see back in Mali, things are going ok, the farming season will be here quickly so people are making all their last preparations like finishing new mudbuildings, bringing compost to the fields, etc. things they won't be able to do when work starts. There's also a lot of fish in the river near my house now so I've been eating a lot of fresh fish, mmmm. It was crazy, one day, the boys didn't go fishing so I had dry fish with my to, and I had almost forgotten how gross the dried fish is compared to fresh. Anyway one day they caught this big fish, so here's the pic.

I also went to Tone (pronounced Ton-nay) the village of my homologue's wife Alima. Alima is also one of my best friends here in village. Anyway she was in her village for a few weeks cause she was sick and they thought that if she went to her father's house she would get better. I really missed her and I told here I always wanted to see her village so Abdoulaye and I spent the day at her father's house. It was one of my best days here in Mali, everyone was so nice, she was so happy to see me, and they really spoiled me oranges, mangoes, rice and sauce, all that while just chilling and drinking tea with good friends and nice people. Here's a pic of Alima and I last September for the Malian Independence day celebrations.

I was also going to be looking for jobs while I'm here, but this whole finding a job thing is a lot harder than I thought. Partly because the jobs I'm looking for are usually not listed, you get them by who you know, so you need connections nad unfortunately while I have a lot of friends here I don't know a whole lot of people in high places, so I'm putting the word out in addition to applying to a handful of jobs already and hoping for the best. I'm also applying the extend a third year with Peace Corps in Senegal, at first I was against this because I really want start a job, but if I was here with PC, it would give me the opportunity ot make connections facilitating the finding of a job a year later.

Dear Abby, I will be eating the little bunnies once they are grown up. Why? because rabbit meat is very tasty and nutricious and where I live I don't get any meat, so it will be a special treat for me to eat the bunnies. They are very cute though...

Well, I'll be going but I think I may be online a lot here, it's sooo cheap 1000CFA for 6 hours whereas in Sikasso it's 1000CFA for an hour! So send me comments and I'll reply.