Ramadan Recap

So the month of Ramadan ended on Friday, the celebration here is called Korite. It was a long day of prayer at the mosque and (finally!) FOOD! and lots of it. I really love food, and I think the people of Pellel do too. We definitely ate well to celebrate the end of the month of fasting. Although I didn't actually fast the whole month (I had secret meals in my hut) I definitely ate a lot less than I normally would have. In addition to all the not eating, I got some work started on a couple of future projects, I'll have more info on those as things start to come together over the next month or so now that everyone is up and running again.

I was in at the regional house this weekend to greet the new stage volunteers who came for site visits. They're a fun group and we're all looking forward to the 9 of them moving in with us here in Kedougou after they swear in at the end of October, I can't believe I'm no longer one of the freshmen here.

Tomorrow morning I head back to Dindefelo, where I'll be spending most of the next two weeks for the Kedougou Summer Camp. Its a leadership camp for students in the area. I'll have more on that after its done. But a busy two weeks coming up, and then I get to go to the Dakar region for a week or so. There's some new photos on Picasa, so enjoy those, sorry I don't have any other interesting stories for now, until next time.

My dad (he's the town Imam) and some guy I call Grandfather Time, in their Korite best!
(they never smile...my dad is really the nicest person, he just looks a little serious here)

Pellel Waterfall again (this time with pictures)

Hello all, I'm going to try to keep this post short, it's late and I need to get to bed soon, heading back to village tomorrow. I was back at the regional house for some organizational meetings for the Dindefelo summer camp that's coming up. Also met with the head of the local hospital with some other volunteers to discus implementing a permanent condom distribution system for the region. Not too much work, but things are starting to pick up, I'll definitely have more work and stories after Ramadan finished, right now everyone is fasting so not much work gets done.

Enough of work talk...Hannah and I made a trip out to the Pellel waterfall last week. It was beautiful, well worth the 1h15m walk out there. I won't go into too many details of the waterfall, the pictures say it all, and you can always refer back to my earlier post about the first time I visited out there, this time luckily I brought my camera. Enjoy the photo below (plenty more on my picasa account)

The Pellel Waterfall

and just because I want to share a couple more photos...

my tomatoes (i know spacing is terrible)

the amazing bridge we need to cross to get from site back to the regional house....