Off for the Weekend

First, in answer to the Amiga comments: Nafë is pronounced nafee and basically every family gives their student a Senegalese name - in my case there were a few pieces of paper in my host sister's hand and I chose that one. It's basically used by anyone who doesn't want to bother having to learn a foreign name - my host family still calls me Sonya.

Just so you all know, this weekend (starting tomorrow), we are going on an extended four day field trip to an area just north of the Gambia. It should be really cool since we'll be getting to go to a national park and a few villages and we'll be hearing from people working in the health, environment, and microfinance fields and getting to go to some sort of storytelling performance etc. I'll definitely have a lot to update on then, and I probably won't be back online between right now and Sunday night or Monday morning. It will be nice to have a change of pace though and get to see more than just the immediate area around where we live.

Also, as for pictures, they will come. Thanks to Uncle Dave (Thank you! I'll try to reply soon, but I may be out of connection for the next few days), I now know how to take smaller pictures, so I may have more luck uploading them. It's hard to take pictures though - it's already so apparent being white here, so stopping to take pictures of the street also seems like it's pushing it. While I'm on the topic, whites are "Toubab" here, which is what all the kids yell when you're around, and all the taxis (of which there seem to be millions) beep to see if you need a ride.
Must go figure out how to print out a paper though (I'll comment more on the academic situation here later, but it's ... interesting at times).
Best!