So, yet again I've left it ages between blogs so there is so much to tell. Sophia has been and gone, I went surfing, we finally took the kids swimming, visited St. Louis for the Jazz Festival, rearrange our room (you'll be amazed at how much more space we have now, not sure why it took us this long to do), visited Ile de Goree with the school and went to a school prom in jeans… I had an amazing time with Sophia, it didn't even feel odd having her here, it w...

So yet again so many things have happened since I last wrote. Senegal got a new president, I went and checked out the only safe country that we can travel to and we finally went to the Croco Parc (We've been planning to go there since we first went past the sign in about December). The second round of elections ran very smoothly, we went and filmed a little again but it was pretty much the same as last time but with two candidates instead of 14. As we were on ...

So many things have happened since I last wrote. We've had the first rounds of elections for one thing and I finally visited Kaolack having not been back there since October. I also saw the president and have been going on election campaigns here for the another candidate.There has been quite a bit of hype recently about the elections. When I first arrived people were talking about them but it was just occasionally, now almost everywhere you go people are discuss...

We have finally gone on a pirogue tour. We took the boys to Fadiouth to have a look around and ended up being talked into going for a pirogue ride. It was hilarious when we were in the graveyard, in the Christian section because Babo (a young muselim boy) started walking closer to me because he claimed he was scared. I laughed, because it tends to joke with me but then when he didn't smile I realized he was genuinely scared. He cheered up on the boat, we didn't...

So I realise that I've not done a blog update in ages. It's not because I haven't been up to anything it just because I guess I struggle to put into words the amazing, although sometimes bizzar, time I am having here. For example today I went to help out in the pharmacy and I walked into a consultation room to greet the doctor as is custom here and I walked in on him performing a circumcision. Pretending this hadn't fazed me in the slightest I completed the norm...