The journeys that made me a man (April)

Senegal – hot country with even warmer people. (I came up with that) So instead of telling you a list of amazing things I did in the past month / all the cool places I went on holiday – I’m going to tell you about the three most grueling, intense and sweaty journeys I took.…

March

With the beginning of Lent came the beginning of my first fast. William is a Catholic much like many people in our district. Fasting (wor in Wolof / jeuner in French) is actually really common especially with Muslim people doing Ramadan in May/June. The rules are one meal a day. No snacks. A lot of…

February

I’ve started visiting an Artist called Assane every Monday. We made a deal where by he teaches me a traditional fabric dyeing technique called Batik and in exchange I’m teaching him English to help with tourism. He has a shop/studio in downtown where I’ve been spending the day.  So essentially you apply hot wax to…

January

Im getting behind on my posts I’m very sorry! So we began the month with a wedding. We took a bus with our friends to the other side of town at about 10am. Just remember this is the day after NYE. I was tired to say the least. But we arrived and like any standard…

December // Sorry this is very late

I lost my phone on Christmas eve which has made updating this blog very difficult I hope you can forgive me! (I’ve also lost the majority of my photos ) 😦 We began December with a student strike. This is not an uncommon occurrence in the run up to Christmas. Every year strikes take place…

Photos!

Christmas lunch 🙂 Christmas day was spent with many people ! Project Trust Volunteers (right) our hosts the Bodian family -who we eat with lunch/dinner (centre) Fulbright volunteers from America (centre back) The Gates family from America!  Taking a pirogue boat just outside of Cap Skirring The beach over the Christmas holidays :)!

On Language Learning

So living in a foreign country is not without its difficulties. Although english is taught in schools it is not a spoken language here. Instead we have a multitude of local languages (Wolof, Diola, Pul, Serer, Mandinka etc..) and the country’s official langauge (French).  Despite a few years of french at high school my french…

Travels in November

So to start November we had All Saints Day so we celebrated on October 31st with Thomas our host. We went to his friends house and ate pork. Some people sang songs and danced but it was very chill. The next weekend we celebrated the begining of the Parish program/activites so we went along to…

One Month in Zig !

Well it’s more like 5 weeks now anyway it’s about time for an update: We had a slow start to begin with, school kept being delayed by one thing or another – the classroom needed to be cleaned then half the students didnt turn up for a week because they were “still playing football in…

Trinity Academy Questions: Answered

​Thank you so much for all your questions it’s been a joy to answer them. Let me know if there is anything else you’d like to know! 1)Where do you stay? Hotel / house by yourself / with a family We stay in a rented apartment at the moment but are moving to a house…