Le plage!

Today 2 more students came to Senegal for the program (the official starting date is tomorrow) and Joanne (my room mate) and I showed them how to get to campus from our hotel, and guess what we didn't get lost this time! I think we are getting the hang of this thing, you know this thing called walking and remembering how to get to point A to point B. And it may seem pretty simple but really it is very confusing to remember which corner to turn and which street to cross especially when we start talking to each other and totally forget that we were suppose to make a left at the building with a painting of the “laughing cow” instead of continuing straight (and yes this has happened to us a couple of times). But after we got to the campus we got our breakfast where I struggled to tell the man, who gave us our chocolate bread and bottle of milk, that I don't drink milk (which came out something like je ne boire pas lait) but I guess my french is not up to par yet because he had to ask his English speaking friend what I said. Well at least im trying :). Any way after our “petit dejeneur” we decided we were going to try to find the plage (beach) so we asked two students who were also eating in the cafe how we could get to the beach. They gave us some directions, which we tried to follow expect we ended up by the training room where we met up with them again. So they decided to just show us how to get there, and I'm glad they did because there was no way we could have found it, there were so many twist and turns we definitely would have gotten lost. However I should add that I was able to remember how to get back with out their direction, so thumbs up to me!! The beach was BEAUTIFUL!!!! The view was perfect, the sand didn't burn my feet, and the water was refreshing. The two other girls and I were the only women on the beach and the men that were there were not swimming but working out! Some were running on the sand, doing squats, playing soccer, and I even saw a boy doing sit ups on top of another boys back who was on his hands and knees, that must really work your abs because we he was done he held on to his stomach like he was in pain. We stayed there for about an hour and a half then made our way back to our hotel. Today has been another hot day which is perfectly fine because I would trade Marylands cold/rainy/icy weather for Dakars hot temperature anyday!!!

Well im off to dinner, à toute à l'heure!