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“How is the transition?” “Are you happy to be back?” “How have you been?” All simple questions that I have been asked multiple times lately. Simple questions I have had a difficulty answering. Yes, I can answer all these questions honestly and simply: “The transition started off with a lot of busyness, jet lag, difficult […]

Before we left the US, I wrote a blog about moving… digging up your roots and replanting somewhere else. I remembered that just the other day, as I realized that the growth of a plant is really an incredible picture of what it’s like to “grow” into another culture. For one, there’s the roots. So […]

We are thousands of miles away from the United States, thousands of miles away from the friends and family we would normally been around on Thanksgiving. We decided that even though all the above was true, and Thanksgiving doesn’t exist in Senegal… we were going to celebrate and be thankful anyway! We invited some of […]

Last Friday our host family was invited to go to another church’s Friday night meeting, so they asked if I wanted to tag along with them. Thinking it would be a good chance to see another church and spend some time with our host family, I said yes.   Now, I had already had class earlier that day, […]

Last Sunday when I woke up and looked out the window. Where I might normally see an empty sandy lot with a makeshift soccer goal, there was a large pavilion being set up. Now this isn’t all to unfamiliar, for all kinds of events people will rent large tents and pop them up in an […]