Sept 4

people here like obama... i think cuz he's black... but i've seen obama bumper stickers and such... tis cool
i live in an apartment with maman monique who is a high school french teacher... and works at an international universite teaching french when her high school is on holiday. we have a maid whose name is leonie who i share a room with... maman monique's son whose 20, jean daniel, lives there too but works during his holiday (which goes until october... or november he said with a laugh... scheduling is not very strict) at a mustard factory... where the pollen makes the workers cry all day... he listens to american musique so when igave him the cd he knew all the artists... maman monique looooves your pottery... they don't have that many kitchen things like dishes and silverware and such so she likes them a lto....she wsays that when she drinks her beer she will use your mug... she comes from the south (called Casamance... the southern part of senegal) where the Jola people live... so she speaks jola, wolof, french, a little english, a litle spanish, and a portuguese creole that she speaks with leonie... cuz i think she was saying that they speak portuguese where leonie is from...
they don't use toilet paper here. the sewer system doesn't work well so beacuase its the rainy season there is a lot of water in the roads and such. there are random cats dogs and goats everywhere. the drivers are crazy... like mexico... but a little worse... like peru. there are no lights or signs, people just honk and go. so the taxii ride yesterday was intense. yesterday we took a boat to goree island where a lot of the slave trade took place... it was pretty. on our way back home we were ambushed by people trying to sell us stuff. was great. i should go. hope all is well in the states.
ba beneen yoon. alhoumdililaa