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The testing team
- The crowd
Planning my biggest project yet, the Journée de Sensibilisation pour la lutte contre le SIDA in Kanel, a concert featuring 15 local musical acts, two theatre troups, and free testing and free entrance, evoked in me many things, all set to the tune of that oh-so-appropriate Queen song. Somehow, I made it through and the concert went off without a hitch. This was due, I think, less to my stellar planning skills (mostly because I don’t have them), but more to the great talent here in the Fuuta and the enthusiasm of the people around me. Some stats to recap the event:
Number of months of planning: 8
Number of hours of music played: 5
Number of concert-goers: about 600
Number of people tested: 107 (woo hoo!)
Number of musicians: 30-ish?
Number of actors: 7
Number of times I almost cried: 3
Number of times I almost screamed at someone: I’m going to be conservative, and say 5
Number of hours of sleep I had the night of the show: 2
Number of congratulations since: lots and lots! Thank you all!
Also for your viewing pleasure, a few photos.
Enjoy!
The stage
Local musician MC Diere performs
me onstage
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New baby Sada
Attempting to cook dahine (much tastier than goat brains and millet!)
Innde guests; my mom is the second from the left. Here you can see her facial tatoo, at one time an important tradition among Pulaar women
Kids at the innde
:-)
- My sister Uma Lam with new mom, Binta
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- Heading towards Ile de Madeleine
- The ile itself
- Sitting in le boabab parasol
- Swimming across the lagoon in the center of the island
- C’est moi
In lieu of the usual rants about whatever seems to be bouncing around in my head at the moment I finally have quality time with a computer, I’m going to leave you with the images of a recent trip with some of my friends to les Iles de Madeleine, a tiny group of islands just off the south eastern tip of Dakar. I miss and love you all.
