We are going with Fou Malade (the rapper we met earlier this month) to the Duggy Tee and Awadi show tonight..staying up all night for an earlier morning departure..its going to be painful!
This photo is Fou Malade watching a toubab dance to Fulani music..(posted an animated video of his earlier)..Im bringing home a bunch of great music from Senegal..
This is where we stayed while in Dakar..the hotel has wifi, airconditioning and fresh mango every morning for breakfast..What more could a person need??
I met Mamadou (far right) on the plane from JFK to Dakar, almost a month ago now. It turns out his daughter is going to the university in the US of one of our program directors…so we all met up a few times and then were invited to their family home for a fabulous dinner! It truly is a small world.
We ate by candle light because the power was out during the entire meal and most of the evening. The electricity is a real problem here in Dakar and all over Senegal. There is a power outage nearly every day lasting from just moments, to a few hours, to an entire evening or afternoon. Most places are run by generators because the electricity is so unreliable.
The small sampling of graffiti photos I have is represented in 6 different languages and communicates about politics, peace, working together, being united, Senegalese music and daily struggles of living in poverty. Some powerful stuff! The street graffiti in Dakar has become focus of my curriculum project for when I return to the classroom.
The children in all the villages we visited were very friendly and eager to speak with us!
Our own private bungalows! The landscape is overlooking the Saloum river delta…very peaceful and felt like a home away from home to me!
Rural Senegal is absolutely breathtaking! I can’t get enough of the open landscape especially after spending so much time in Dakar!
The taxi is mostly what we ride daily to the WARC and each ride varies extremely. It is crazy fun with all the congestion and NO traffic lights in the city just round-abouts with many, many speed bumps. The toubab (remember that term?) bus is what we take mostly out of the city like to St. Louis and tomorrow when we leave for Toubacouta (another rural area in S. central Senegal, near the Gambia border).
This is the real deal! Wrestling is so popular here and has a huge following. It’s all about the lead up to each match, some which last only seconds. The crowd is extremely enthusiastic and emotional. The music, drumming and dancing was incredible! It was so exciting and so much activities going on at once.
It is great to be out of the city of Dakar and get a sense of how people live in rural areas.
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Teresa Heil's Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Program to Senegal 
