Senegalese Food

The food here is really good! I have had fish, chicken, beef, hummus, pasta, macaroon cake, Indian food, pizza, awesome fruit, and the regular vegetables. I haven't gotten sick (fingers crossed) yet, but Gabbie has. Check it out!

International School in Dakar (ISD)

It's 7:00 PM and I am already exhausted. The heat and humidity really takes it out of me. Luckily there is an opened bottle of French wine next to me and I can relax for a bit. Today's feature is ISD, where Gabbie and I work. It's a fine school with high expectations, which I appreciate. I look forward to meeting my students and working with the fine colleagues I have already met. The campus, as you can see, it very nice. I am feeling a bit frustrated because I am living in two worlds: ISD/structured get'r done and do it better than anyone has done it before vs. Dakar/whenever I get to it. I signed up for it so I can't complain too much. It's not so bad. I just can't find a dryer in a country of 12.5 million people. Ha! Things will come around. Enjoy the campus pic.s

Biking to School

Today we biked to our new school. We found some nice side/safe roads. It only took us about twenty -five minutes to get there and that was with stopping and taking pictures. It was warm as you can tell by the color of my face.

Our First Day Out in Town

Well, it's a new experience everyday. Day one we got to dine ocean side, go grocery shopping, and witness a riot. Yeah!

Our New Home: N'Gor Rue

We made it! It's like living in Mexico (Gabbie is so tired of me saying that). I have so much to share and it's hard to categorize it all. I'll start with our home. I love it! I take advantage of the pool daily. There's no pool side service, but hey, my house is the one right next to it, so I guess I can get my ass out of the pool for a drink. The compound is gated and guarded twenty-four hours a day. We live on a quiet street, it's less noisy than Portland, and are close to shops.

Our New Car

We just purchased our new car for Dakar. It's just like the Montero here in the states. Mitsubishi made these especially for the Dakar Rally. It is a diesel, so hopefully we can find some biodiesel while we are there. Maybe this would be a great time for me to experiment with making my own? 

Garden

It's May and we just got our last round of shots-ouch! Three people emailed us about renting our place, so that's good. Hopefully they will work out. The picture is of the garden to our bungalow in Dakar.

Jen Bulluck got me a gift card to REI for my Birthday and I bought this really cool, rechargable via USB port lantern. No batteries required. It can also be charged by spinning the attached handle. They say that the electricity goes out about once a month and that we'd need a good lantern. Thanks Jen!

I am getting excited to move.