2017-06-07
DAY #5: My bike. There am I, having driving lessons and thinking how boring, wasteful and expensive it is to drive places. I miss being able to ride my bike everywhere. I miss feeling the wind on my face while watching hyped up kids yelling "TUBAAB, TUBAAB!" in the streets. I miss the freedom...
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2017-06-02
DAY #4: Food. YES, FOOD!!! I have loved Senegalese food from the first time I ate it. Yes, it is mostly rice and fish, and yes, it is sometimes so spicy you will sweat a lot for the next hour, but that is exactly why I loved it. The almost unimaginable amount of oil they...
Read More2017-05-31
DAY #3: First Host Family My first host family was a gift from the universe of coincidences. Born in Cape Vert (and therefore a Portuguese speaker), my host mom was an angel who called me daughter from the first time we met. My host dad and I had very similar interests and opinions about politics,...
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DAY #2: Teranga Teranga is a Senegalese word for hospitality, and yes, it is the most cliché and the most beautiful thing I can talk about that country. Anyone really going to Senegal will learn this word on their first days there, but it takes more than a couple days to understand what it really...
Read More2017-05-27
This is a capstone about my 7 months in Senegal and the things I’m the most grateful for. For 7 days, starting today, I will post a reflection about something important for me from this experience. I hope you enjoy it. DAY #1: Meditation As this is about my stay in Senegal, I...
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2017-03-04
Pedidos especiais me levaram a traduzir esse texto inteirinho pro Português. Divirtam-se 🙂 Saalam Aleikum! Fala galerinha, no post de hoje eu serei Mame Diara, a pessoa que eu vim sendo nesses últimos 6 meses, e não a Fer de quase sempre. Pois é, me deram um nome novo aqui (aparentemente nomes gringos são complicados...
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2017-02-27
Saalam Aleikum! It’s me again, but this time not as Fernanda. In this blog post I will be Mame Diara (aka The Only Tubab in Town), who is also the person I have been being for these past 6 months in Senegal. Yes, I have a different name here (apparently tubab names are too complicated...
Read More2017-02-23
I frequently compile lists in my head. Places I want to visit, inspiring people I have met, moments I want to write about… I even have a list of the lists I want to write one day. So I guess now’s a good time to cross one of these out… Here goes a list of...
Read More2017-02-02
Hi. I know I haven’t written as many blog posts as I said I would. In fact, I know I haven’t written any since that short introduction about why I am here. The truth is that, for months, I forgot why I was here. Fortunately, days come and go, smiles close to open again,...
Read More2016-09-15
I have never been the type to feel homesick. I started traveling alone from an early age and I moved out of home in my 16th year of life. I spent the past two years in another continent than the one where I was born and raised, and during the 11 months before this last summer, I did not...
Read More2016-09-01
My first blog post in English will have the same aim of my actual first post (that was in Portuguese): I will explain why I am living in Senegal for a year. So, as most of you know: UWC. Right? Two years in Italy with a couple hundreds of international kids who taught me a...
Read More2016-08-27
Oi!Passei muito tempo pensando no que escrever como minha primeira publicação nesse blog, mas percebi que não faria sentido eu escrever algo sobre como a vida está indo e sobre como me sinto sem primeiro explicar o que é que realmente estou fazendo mundo afora de novo (e um pouco de quem sou eu, pra...
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