2012-05-22
Hello Sánchez Family! So as you know, you will be arriving to the wonderful, magnificent, sensational Senegal in only a matter of days. “YAY!” And guess what, people already know your names. So many people in my village are very anxious for your arrival, including me, and they cant wait to meet you. To make...
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2012-05-22
“I love you Jean!” “I love you Tamira (Semira)” Everyday, at least once a day, an exchange of an “I love you” was said between my two year old brother Jean and I. Since I have been here, Jean has become one of my best friends and my brother. Even though he is only two...
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2012-05-22
Tomorrow marks the 1 month anniversary of being “back home.” These past 4 weeks have been a whirlwind of old experiences that feel brand new — such as a grilled cheese sandwich or traffic laws — things that used to be normal, things I haven’t seen, felt, done, tasted, heard in 8 months that are...
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2012-05-21
For the Senegalese, birthdays are seen as ‘not a big deal.’ Since I’ve been here both my mom and my sister’s birthdays have passed, and they treated them just as another day going by. For example, when it came to my 7-year-old sisters birthday. In the morning I had jumped on her bed and yelled...
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2012-05-21
Microfinance is a word. A very fancy word. And a word I feel most people don’t really understand (even when they claim to). I, for example, don’t understand it. I spent three months this year trying to learn about it. I made a video about it! So you should check it out! You can...
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2012-05-21
(This story happened sometime in November. I’m sharing it now.) Okay. So every morning my mom and sister leave about an hour to a half hour before I do to go to work. We bought 5 piglets from our neighbors yesterday and it happens that the bars on the cage door are just slightly large...
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2012-05-21
Carnaval is five days of pure craziness and fun, be prepared to get very dirty and wet and when you leave the house, leave the house prepared to fight. Carnaval started the first weekend of February, kids were out of school and there was no work for that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The first day...
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