Goodbye, Civilization!

Alright. This is going to be a very short post, because I'm craving salami and cheese so badly it's almost physically painful.

Here are some photos from L'Ecole de la Rue, and from a concert that some of us went to at L'Institut Fracais downtown last night! The band was really great- they sang in Wolof and had a tam tam player, but mainly used Western instruments. The lead singer also played acoustic guitar, there was a guy playing electric guitar, a man on a drumset, and an albino woman with dreads playing the bass! She seemed extremely cool. The music was lively and though the venue was chairs arranged in an ampitheater, nearly everyone at the sold out show was up and dancing in the small space available by the end of the concert.

L'Ecole de la Rue:

Some of the blackboards used for adult classes outdoors-

M. Mbaye, the founder of L'Ecole de la Rue, demonstrating some of the very first lessons adults learn when they come to class- the alphabet!

Walking through winding mazes of shacks to the childrens' classrooms

Boys in the 3rd level of L'Ecole de la Rue


The concert at L'Institut Francais!

That's about all I can muster at the moment. Except maybe this short list of things in Dakar I will miss come Monday:

1. salami and cheese
2. internet
3. Maman Binta's fatayas
4. my host family
5. fruit and vegetables

Those aren't in order of how much I'll miss them, I swear. Don't know when I'll make it to the cybercafe for the first time, but you guys will here from me pretty soon!