Dawal Welo

Tutoring was the only thing I had today and it went well. Other than that I went for a bike ride (dawal welo in wolof) to Ndem* and back. The road to Ndem is a "red road" which means that it's compacted dirt/sand (that gives it a red color) and fairly easy to ride on. It's surrounded by fields of bissap (a plant you can make juice and sauce out of) as well as millet. There are a million Baobab trees (the tree Rafiki lived in in the Lion King) and a few very, very small villages. There are, like always, kids yelling at my but I turned my ipod up loud enough (not too loud for all of the parents reading my blog) so I couldn't make out what they were saying and I pretended they were cheering me on! Someone, who I think might have been named "Suzy" taught one village to say "bye-bye," so I did hear those kids yelling "bye-bye Suzy!" I also had some chickens cross the road in front of me, had to ride through some cows on their way home, and helped a shepard herd some stray sheep.

I don't have anything on schedule for tomorrow other than doing my laundry but I'm going to Dakar Saturday to play softball (no worries, I'm returning Saturday night - I'm determined to stay every night in Bambey until Thanksgiving like we were challenged to do)!
Ba Suba,
KO

*If I haven't talked about Ndem before, it's a village 11km from Bambey. I'm supposed to be working with the artisans there. I'm actually going to the village Monday to introduce myself.