It's already time to leave Yoff, and head back to my family in Dakar. I have mixed feelings about this, but am really happy that I got to come here and see another perspective, meet new people, etc. Yoff is a suburb of Dakar, or another neighborhood in Dakar depending on who you talk to, but it does have a smaller feel to it. Like the other night I took my host cousin to a party my friend's host brother was having, and of course they just happened to know each other since kindergarten. And when we said we had to pick up our friend at the Ndiaye's house, they knew where that was too. Small.
Monday was Korité, the end of Ramadan. It was not as exciting as I thought it would be for how much they talked about it beforehand, but it was a good day nonetheless. I put a ton of pictures up from it on my webshots page which gives a good idea of what it was like: Eating and getting dressed up for pictures. Part of the dressing up in the afternoon, after eating, is for when they go to visit other people. I don't know how they decide who goes and who stays, but people were coming by all afternoon and night, and my host mom and aunts went out at least once.
More exciting news...I found this kind of yogurt that has millet in it. Millet is like couscous only larger, and it tastes really good with vanilla yogurt. A tub of it is about 70cents and has been my lunch for the last couple of days. I also have baguettes every day. Makes me miss France :).
Overall...comfortable. I'm getting more and more comfortable every day. Life is good.
Enjoy the cold for me all you people in the US.
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