Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Photobucket

I posted a good number of the photos I've taken at photobucket.com You can see them at http://s239.photobucket.com/albums/ff116/frazzo_photos/ You might have to sign up for a photobucket account but that's alright.
Also, my friend, Garrett, has taken a bunch of good pictures. Not all of them are of Senegal but the first 5 pages or so are all Senegal. He updates often too. Check it out at http://flickr.com/photos/10510390@N07/

More pictures

This is behind my house

This is the mosque next to my house. The mosque announces prayers 5 times a day so it's incredibly noisy. My family is catholic so we don't participate but there is no way to avoid the loud prayers going on. ...It's kinda cool to hear actually. It hasn't gotten old.

Here's the front door to my house and my bed for the year!

Getting better

Hey all. Things are all starting to get better. I'm getting a lot more used to the living conditions and I'm making a lot of Senegalese friends who are helping me adjust quickly to the culture. Last weekend I went to my first Soccer match, it was Senegal versus Burkina Faso and Senegal won 5-1 oh yeah!! It was quite something, I opted to not sit with the other Americans I'm here with and I ended up in the middle of a wild and crazy bunch of Senegalese. Last weekend I also visited Gorée Island ...it's a tropical island 15 minutes off the coast of Dakar with lots of history. We visited the slave house on Gorée where all the slaves were kept after they had been taken from the mainland Senegal. After we visited the museums and the slave house, we hit the beach, aw yeah!

I took some pictures of my neighborhood for all to see.
These are the roads I walk on to school: