Live from Senegal

Well, here's a quick note from Dakar, Senegal. I arrived early Thursday morning after my flight from Casablanca to Dakar was delayed. Since then, I've done a lot: eaten traditional food and tea, swam in the Atlantic Ocean, visited an African market, and been asked to buy beads/give money/take a taxi more times than I can count.

So far, Dakar has been huge fun. It's a crazy, hot, dirty place, where everyone can instantly tell that I'm a foreigner... and hence asking me to buy everything in sight. At the same time, this is the strangest place I have ever visited: cars drive wherever they want, the sidewalks are just sand, and you really just drop your trash wherever you want.

I'll be back in France late Monday and have class on Tuesday; hopefully I'll be able to fill in more details then.