Al Hamdulilaay

Me and Bebe Dabah when she was visiting me in my room.
Turns out my house mother is a wealth of information! She took me to the dental school today to meet with a professor whom she knows. He has kindly agreed to show me around the dental school and is going to spend all morning with me on Thursday. Also, the Minister of Dentistry is located in the dental school building and I can meet with him. And the publication, Dakar Medicale, the only one that I couldnt access from the US and which contains probably 50 percent of the articles that will help me, is also housed in the medical faculty. Al Hamdulilay (praise to God)! Ive got a lot of work to get done before Thursday morning then in preparation because I will be able to get a good portion of my information in that amount of time.

I really think that I function much better when I have many things that need to be getting done. I am also needing to prepare for my visit to linguere this weekend. This is a town 5-6 hours northeast of Dakar where I will be staying for the month of August (yay my most favorite bachata song is playing on Batanga "Quién eres tu" sorry for the sidenote, just thought id share my elation). Im just going there to get the lay of the land and meet with the dentists that I will work with.

This outfit was a big hit. Never before have I recieved so many compliments on a piece of clothing. I received atleast 5 marriage proposals or offers to find me a senegalese husband. Unfortunately, I dont think Im in the mareket for one right now... I was referred to as the Petite Senegalaise and the women commented on my butt patting it approvingly and saying that I have un bon plafond. I was a bit worried about how to wear this. It is essentially two pieces. The bottom is called a pagne and is a skirt which wraps and ties in the back. The top is very light because as you can see there isnothing to it. I was worried about the fact that it is seethrough but apparently this isnt a concern. its just how the young people wear it. I find this to be sort of a contradiction. In general it is frowned upon (but taken as typical for Westerners) to wear spaghetti strap sort of tank tops. However the fact that you could see everything up top in this outfit