Compared to a month ago, plants have died and disappeared in one fell swoop! Currently I am in the "Dry season" with no rain. I recently bought and started using a blanket. I had been sleeping without anything over my body until recently. …

Living abroad, I have to remember lots of names of people and events that are written with alphabet. Japanese don't use alphabet very much, so it's hard for me.. The date of the 20th of November is named "Gammo," which means the birth anni…

The 1st of November was a notional holiday called "All Saints' Day." It is a Christian day to pray to the saints. And the night before the All Saints' Day is Halloween. I was invited to a home of a Christian of my friend and I had a feast.…

There is a festival named "Magal Touba", which is a Muslim festival on the 28th of October. Touba is the name of a region in Senegal that is a holy place for Muslims. On the holiday, people from all over Senegal gather at a large mosque in…

Today is a national holiday named "Tamahari" in Senegal. I heard that the day is the beginning of a new year in the Islamic calendar. The new year begins in September. In Japan, the dates of national holidays are already set at the beginni…

The 11th of August was a public holiday called Mountain Day in Japan. I had been thinking that I'd like to climb a mountain if Senegal had mountains. Because I used to climb mountains in Japan every year. But it seems not to be mountains i…