A typical day in the neighborhood!

A typical day for me:
Wake up at 7:30 am, take a cold shower get dressed walk to the “corner store” and buy half a baguette and a tea bag. Come back home boil water for my tea and put chocolate spread on my bread. I say good morning to my brother before he goes to school and to my dad on the way out the door. By 8:15 I start walking to school. During my 25 min walk to school every morning I always talk to one of the guards on a street near my house whose name is Mufassa and a women who is always sweeping the sidewalk outside of her house who I think gets a kick out of me speaking to her in Wolof. By the time I come on campus for my 9 o’clock class my back is always wet from the sweat I worked up from carrying my backpack in the Senegalese heat. (Embarrassing)
I have classes from 9-2:30 then most days for lunch me and my friends go to this “restaurant” close to the school where two women work and serve Mafe (my favorite!!) Ceebu Jen and this other dish with onion sauce and rice. I put restaurant in quotes because it really is just a little one room building with a sectioned off kitchen (which consist of two burners and a sink). A plate is 700 CFA which is roughly $1.50, and it is really filling although it has given some of my friends stomach aches. Or if we don’t go there Ill pick something up on campus. Although a girl told me last year someone got worms from eating there we still risk it, I always get the omelet sandwich, consisting of egg, lettuce, french fries, ketchup, and hot peppers on a baguette all for 500 CFA (sounds weird but taste sooo good).

After lunch back to school where I have classes until 6:30 most days and after class I hang out on campus for a little bit take a taxi back to Sacre-Coeur trios where I live and talk to my family and do homework. I normally have dinner around 10pm , which we eat in front of the TV, most of the time we watch the news, soccer games, or wrestling matches (the national sport of Senegal). Then I finish up my homework and go to bed. I only have classes on Monday through Thursday so on Fridays I typically go so where with some friends, like to the beach, centre ville to buy stuff, or to someone’s house.