Zach’s Travels

After an email from my mother saying I need to update my blog about my trip to Touba, I’ve decided to overcome my brief plague of laziness and actually write something.  That and I’m currently sitting in my room not doing much of anything else.
We left last Wednesday afternoon – myself, Doucoure, Baye Fall, Amadi, [...]

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For those interested, I have fully recovered from the unknown stomach illness. For those of you who sent kind thoughts of “get well,” “please don’t die” and the like - thank you. For those of you who secretly hoped this would be the end of me and sat eagerly waiting to hear the [...]

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Have had some unknown sickness for about 2.5 days now.  Spent two nights ago vomiting and generally purging the system.  Stomach ache, headache, general fatigue.  Went to the doctor yesterday.  Now THAT was a language barrier.  Tested for Malaria.  Test came back inconclusive.  Put me on an array of meds - no idea what they [...]

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How many religious studies and computer science double majors interning in Senegal can there be? My guess is not many. Which is why I’m now famous. Kind of. But not really: http://www.traveling-stories-magazine.com/coming-full-circle/
In other news, this week has been painstakingly boring. To be quite honest I haven’t really done anything of [...]

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One of the things I have learned through travelling is that experience is the greatest teacher. Someone can tell you all they know about where to go, how to behave, and what to look for, but it is actually wandering into the city alone that really gives you a base of understanding. And [...]

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Just to throw this out now - the internet here is very bad. When it works, it’s slow. When it doesn’t, well, it just doesn’t. The Goree Institute, the place I’m working, has wireless, but I can only get a connection some of the time, and even then it goes in and [...]

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