This is going to be very quick but I am going to offload my terrible mood here: 1) Two new volunteers have arrived. Hideously arrogant and absolutely in love with themselves. Have travelled for two weeks previous to this and so believe this makes them an authority on anything African. They describe themselves as metrosexual and have a daily skin regime along with full body exfoliation. To make it worse everyone loves them apart from me and Lucy who cansee that t...

This is going to be very quick but I am going to offload my terrible mood here: 1) Have found out my surname in Wolof is Vanjinas - not impressed and will be mocked for the rest of my life. 2) Everybody now has my illness - its gross. 3) Went out last night, Lucy lost her purse and the whole night was lame. 4) I know that rice is waiting at home for me - if I see another grain of rice I might just cry. 5) The most hideous guy you could imagine called us all ugly...

I've been fairly slack on updating this week and I apologise. I am always the one giving the guilt trip on keeping in contact and I am especially bad at doing this. Ive started about a million letters and written ten postcards but they are now littered around the room waiting to be finished/sent. Well this week has been quite eventful. Firstly my foundation ran out but I got over that, but when the face wipes were finally finished it was close to a tragedy. I...

This is going to be a quick one as running out of time and internet is being particularly slow. Had a lovely couple of days and school today was finally better. Was very thankful when the weekend came after that killer week. Slept late on Saturday and skipped lunch to go to the beach. Took about ten years to find a baguette and when we finally did it was absolutely hideous but thats not really important and we did feed a hungry dog, named rabies. Spent the day at...

Just coming up to my second weekend in Saint Louis and I actually can't believe it. Whilst it does feel like I have been here forever it does still seem only two minutes sine I was stressing out about packing at home. Looking forward to the weekend if a little apprehensive about meeting ten new people tonight. Its holy day today here so I was expecting lots of noise in the Mosque last night but thankfully it wasnt as bad as most other nights are, pleasantly s...