C'est la fin!

Alright, so the last few days in Senegal have been... fairly uneventful. We are all pretty tired, I'd say, and ready to come home! :) Here are some of the highlights from our last few days:

Spencer and I, being very bored at the Tunisian Ambassador's house. Not that it wasn't interesting, it just... wasn't. But, there was good fruit salad :)

Here he is, with Madame Thompson. Obviously I was trying to take these pictures sneakily, and it worked. I don't remember his name, but apparently he is running in the upcoming presidential elections for Tunisia. I said that I'd tell all my Tunisian friends to vote for him...

After that, we set off for a scary walk in the dark to this really fancy Lebanese restaurant that Prof. Lee suggested. I don't know if you've ever eaten Lebanese food, but it's good. And they serve a lot of it. It was like humus and vegetables and salads and samosas and lots of strange other things with strong flavors. So... it was good, but it took forever because they bring out like one dish at a time, and we were all stuffed when they hadn't even gotten halfway through. But, we did secretly take some of the leftovers home in plastic bag. :) We didn't leave until about 11:30, but it was fun.

The rest of our time, we've spent having the last few classes, which we haven't really been paying attention to because we're all so tired; making last minute purchases; and eating lots of ice cream. I spent a lot of time at this little village, buying lots of cute earrings.

And then this morning, we all went to this market to look around and take pictures. The fruits and vegetables were cool but the meat was gross.

Especially this. Yes, those are hammerhead sharks there. Hungry?

We came back to the hotel and took our FINAL. Nice way to spend our last day, huh? Madame said it would take an hour; it took two. What a surprise. But at least it's over! After that, we went over to eat lunch at Aminata's house. She requested that we all wear our boubous, and we were happy to have another occasion to wear them.

We all ate together out of these giant dishes. It was good.

Came home and had a little meeting all together... some nice last reflections and thoughts. And then, of course, one last trip to Kayser to eat our last ice cream. It will be missed.

Tomorrow morning, we fly home! Phew. I can't believe it's already over, but I guess that's how time goes. Fast! So I'll try to recap what I've learned here in Senegal... in my next post. See you in Amercia!