The town where I live has infrastructure of water and electricity, although it is unstable. One day, I had the opportunity to visit a village that has no electricity, no tap water. They use water from a well. It was the first time since I …

"Could you be barefoot from here?" The region of Touba is a holy place for Muslims in Senegal. It is a place where people from all over the country gather during Islamic events. There is a large mosque, which is a place where Muslims pray.…

When I was in a taxi, a woman in the seat in front of me fell asleep and her head snapped back toward me in the back. plop The woman's hair fell out. I thought for a moment that her head had been removed. It was a wig. I took the wig in my…

It is essential to exist tailor industry as the main industory in Senegal. In the center area of the town I live in, there are lots of tailors. I usually buy cloths at fabric shops and then go to tailors to have shirts and accessories made…

A big annual celebration of Muslims across Senegal is "Tabaski", which is the "Sacrificial Festival" of offering sheep to the god. Anyway, everyone eats the sheep meat during the festival. Last year's Tabaski is below. yuta7watanabe.hatena…

I am in the capital, Dakar. Since I have been in Senegal for a year, we volunteers had a meeting of the interim report and took the medical checkup. After the medical checkup, my weight was the same as it was one year ago. I had neither lo…

I visited a slaughter place in an area further away from the town where I live. I had an appointment to visit at 8AM. When I arrived there at 8am, most of meat had been slaughtered and hung. The animals slaughtered that day were goats and …

When living in Senegal, some people come to visit me from Japan sometimes. I had never met him before. He asked me to see the elementary school, so I showed him around. The teachers at school seemed happy to have a Japanese visitor other t…

The New Year holidays finished and my work began from 3rd of January. For Japanese volunteers of us, we actually use the word "activity" rather than "work". There is no specific job that we have to do. But rather we get involved with Seneg…

I like to walk every single street when I start living in new place. So I walk around many different streets every day. In the neighborhood, there are many similar sandy roads lined with similar houses made of bricks. It is not so common s…

There is a drum in front of my house. (Left) This drum is a trash can, which was often fallen down and trash was scattered. That's why it had been removed for a while. (Right) The drum has returned! What a surprise, the red lid was install…

One of the rules for volunteers of JICA is the "Three-month rule." One states, "Volunteers must not move between cities for the fisrt three months after volunteers start living in each region (for me in Louga) ." This rule is designed for …

It's been a week since I arrived in Louga. The days of looking for furniture in my house are over, therefore the moving is completely done. "the borrower life of renting a room of a senior volunteer's house" is over at the same time. Water…