Thursday, June 17, 2010

We are here! Don't worry we are still alive!

After hugs and kisses to our family we boarded our plane for 20+ hours of travel. The first flight to Paris being 10 hours with a 4 hour layover (plus 2 hours of delays on the runway!) to our 5 hour flight to Dakar. We arrived late at night, picked up our baggage, and loaded our ridiculously heavy bags on the bus.


Jalen: To all those who enter the French International Airport you will some be enticed by the Play Station 3 airport areas and Rolex watch outlets. But you will be disappointed at the 8 dollar croissants and seven dollar 12 ounce Cokes (with change in European coins!)

We finally arrived at The Good Rade hotel and moved into our rooms. Our first Senegalese meal, pizza. Exhausted we all headed to showers and our beds.

Today was our first official day in Senegal. We woke up and had breakfast and reloaded our crazy heavy bags into the bus and headed for Thies. On our ride there we were occasionally greeted by kids and adults on the street waving at our bus. Also tons of street vendors and mango stands. On arrival to our new hotel we had a delicious meal of rice, chicken, and caramelized onions with various soda cans written in Arabic.
We are slowly starting to encounter new conditions such as the heat, flies, and the complete lack of elevators. We will reach Keur Sadaro tomorrow afternoon where the running water, toilets, and eating utensils will be removed.

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