2013-05-21
My life in Boussoura was filled with smiles and laughter and these beautiful people who made me so incredibly happy as Kadidia Souare. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXd4dHcufKw&feature=player_embedded
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2013-05-02
October was terrible. Every negative adjective applies. I cried almost everyday and spent close to $100 on phone credit calling my family in the US trying to find some comfort in the fact that I wouldn’t be home until April. The only days I felt slightly like myself were Sundays where I would a few...
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2013-04-23
When I arrived in Boussoura on October 2, 2012, the Souare compound was a fully functioning family of 9. One dad, two moms, 2 little girls and 4 little boys all under age 11. I wanted more than anything to be a part of this family. For the first month, I wasn’t. I was a...
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2013-01-25
– When my baby sister screams my name – When my host dad calls me his daughter – When people in my village, or random people I have never met before, tell me I know how to speak Pulaar (real mood boaster) – When my brother dances just to make me laugh – Literally sitting...
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2013-01-25
The fact that it’s called “school” pretty much ends the similarities to any American school I have ever seen. My sister and I walked up to school and saw the children of Boussoura just waiting to be let in to the two locked rooms. When the teacher showed up, I went into the class with...
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2012-09-26
Here is a look at what I have been doing in Dakar, Senegal for the past 3 weeks. I have encountered unimaginable things and seen some of the most incredible sunsets with wonderful people by my side. Senegal: In Country Orientation This is my first video I have ever made and this is the first...
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2012-09-21
I need to stop looking forward. Since that anxiety filled December day when I stood in the Cub Foods parking lot, listening to a voice on the other end of the phone telling me I was accepted into Global Citizen Year, all I have been doing is “looking forward.” Looking forward to finding my country placement, looking forward to...
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2012-07-10
Hi! My name is Caroline Blanchard. I am 17 years old and I have never been out of the country. Well, not really anyway. And now I am about to leave on a 9-month adventure in Senegal that I never pictured myself going on. The summer before my senior year, I was sitting at a...
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