The past two weeks was spent in Thiès, at the Peace Corps Training Center, learning about gardening, tree planting, teaching in the village, grants, Pulaar, etc. - things to help us be more effective and competent volunteers. Below, you can see us at work during a session on how to make mango jam and Bissap Juice, in the case we want to work with a woman’s group and try to sell it. Right after the picture was taken of me, I was told I was not stirring the bissap well enough, and the trainer lady took over, lol.

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Last Sunday I went to Keur Moussa, a monastery near Thiès that was founded in the early 60s. There was some nice artwork in the church and they sold really good goat cheese (I was told), jam, and not-so-good (in my opinion) bissap wine.

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The whole second week of training I was sick, but I’m proud to say that it’s the first time I’ve been sick in-country. I had diarrhea for 6 days straight, and I couldn’t keep any food in my stomach for longer than an hour. I’m finally better, however, just in time for the 2-day health summit on the beach in Joal and English Camp at a lycée in Dakar - I’m really excited about the coming weeks. There are not too many extra pictures this time, but they’re there on the right.

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