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“Senegal Sings”

Posted by Clare on November 7th, 2006

The Washington Post has a very nice slideshow of photographs from Dakar set to a Baaba Maal song. It’s part of a groups of articles (1, 2) and slideshows (1, 2, 3) from/about Senegal. I liked that first slideshow because not only have I been to some of the places pictured in it, but I […]

index, two years

Posted by Clare on November 7th, 2006

Weeks of Peace Corps training and service: 108
Books read: 108
One-hour miniDV tapes shot: 20
Donkeys captured on video braying: 1
CFA in the village women’s group’s bank account when I left: 369,500
Functioning wells in the village: 2
Square meters of enclosed gardening space next to the new well: 225
Babies born in the village: 10
Deaths in the village (none […]