I'm here... where to start?

Seriously... I have had such a crazy day I have no idea where to start!

The flight to Washington was good, then on to Dakar to land at 5:30am, a time of day when apparently the humidity can still be hotter than anything.

The airport in Dakar is not somewhere I'd want to hang out too long so fortunately Babacar from Projects Abroad was there with his sign, and his id, and my name on some forma documents to make sure I knew who he was.

Then began the negotiations to get a cab, negotiations to get out of the parking lot, negotiations at the gas station, negotiations for a "sept-place" which eventually took us on the 4 hour journey up to St. Louis. Along the way I saw some pretty interesting glimpses of farmscape, kids herding goats, brahman cows crossing the road, and someone to selel you cashews, limes, mandarines... anything you like... at every turn.

The host family at St Louis have been very welcoming and we had our first sit on the floor lunch of rice and fish with veggies, which everyone ate out of a communal bowl (I was lucky and recieved a spoon).

I have also met a couple other girls (an Aussie and a girl from Wisconsin), both have been here for 2 months and have lots of information on how things work around here.

Anyhow, just thought I would update to say I made it, I'm safe, and dang its hot!

That's all for now...