Bonjour! Ça va? well, I’m officially another year older! belated happy birthday wishes to my lovely sis, 2 years and 3 days older, woo hahaha. I celebrated my birthday with a small group of fulbrighters and teachers in Dakar, along with Laye (see last post) and his wife. our advisor here, Prof N, made/bought me a birthday cake when she found out that I was having an “anniversaire” the next day and decided that we should have a birthday party. so we ordered a pizza, I made a salad, and asked our friends to bring drinks (non-alcoholic of course, as Senegal is a muslim country and no one drinks here) and speakers (finally- music that we can both listen too at once as opposed to fighting over the ipod!!). the party was pretty good, though it was a bit strange that I was having a birthday party with people I didn’t actually know, as we have only just arrived here! anyways, it was really sweet of Laye and his wife to show up (they work all day and have a small baby to take care of, so I’m sure it was a sacrifice) and for our advisor to give me the cake (she had to teach a course at the last minute, so she couldn’t come) and a beautiful necklace. Prof N’s such an amazing woman- she teaches courses at the university, does neuropsychology research, has a family, and manages to do things like build computer labs, work with NGO’s, and host book fairs in her spare time (all of which we’ve been busy busy busy helping her with!). so basically I should just follow her around and take notes on how to be an amazing person.
that’s all for now, I’m feeling much better after short flu #2 and am getting a bit more comfortable spouting my awful French in public (not to mention my non-existent Wolof!). on the phone last wed it took me about 10 minutes to figure out that the woman calling for mike was not, in fact, a contact from the American embassy, but the pizza delivery person saying that our pizzaman was at the door! oops! yeah, je parle bien le français (did you like that cedille, baby?).
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