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At Work

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Work from Zach Koch on Vimeo.

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Tags: Goree Institute · People · Senegal

Under the old guns and dreaming

June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Saturday night I slept outside on the topmost point of the island, next to some old guns that the French left behind many years ago. Beautiful night. Great temperature with a nice breeze and a sky full of stars.
I was invited by Duchere, one of my closest and most helpful friends [...]

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Tags: Accomodations · People · Senegal

Statements that are only funny in Senegal

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

“Just email it.”
“What time does this start?”
“I’ll just go out and buy an adapter cable.”
“You my friend - I give you good price.”
“It’s a gift.”
On another note, weekend starts in two hours. Currently downloading “Be Kind Rewind” on iTunes. At home such a download would take 20 minutes. Right now I’m [...]

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Tags: Culture · People · Senegal

A kind of real post

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Challenges · Goree Institute · People