project mascot

We've adopted a mascot for the project, in the form of a rather small kitten.






Its head is as big as its body and it likes to sleep in boots. No name as of yet, but rest assured we are feeding it a healthy dose of Nido (condensed milk) and fish leftovers. It's going to become a very fat toubab cat ("toubab" being the word for white person in Wolof).

In other, less exiting news, I got a nasty stomach bug and after a few days of that, became dehydrated, disgruntled, and generally pretty miserable. We headed off to Saly for the Urgent Care where they hooked me up to an IV (the nurses were horrified at how small my veins are) and I spent two hours staring at the ceiling of a lovely, renovated 1940s colonial residence as two bottles of fluids drained into me. A few days of cipro and I should be on the mend.

picture post i

Now that we're in Tataguine, the internet is a bit quicker, so here's a smattering of photos from the first four weeks of the project, with more to come in upcoming days.

Me at the most westerly point of Africa, the Almadies.


The Lighthouse of the Mamelles in Dakar.


A baobab tree laden with fruit.


Soccer on the sandbars at Fadiouth.


A street in Fadiouth, the island made of shells.