Dakar: Alxamdulilaay!

Alxamdulilaay (Thanks be to God) A common expression here. You can practically add it to any sentence in Wolof. That and inchallah (God willing). But here are some pictures of my school where I take classes 4 days a week and my new neighborhood Sacre Coeur 3 which is about a 15 min walk away.

This is my school CIEE Study Center

View from the school terrace

Pictures of the neighborhood where I live—Sacre Coeur 3

The airport is awfully close

The common and cheapest mode of transportation: Carrapide

You just jump on whenever you see one, pay 20 cents, and tap a
coin on the side of the car when you want to get off. The trouble
is knowing where it is  headed. There is an apprenti hanging off of
the back who can tell you.

another mode of transportation. horse carts just mesh right in
with the carrapides and buses and cars and taxis.

Love,
Stephanie