Monthly Archives: August 2015

So where are your peanuts?

Rainy season has kept us busy for nearly a month and half now, and to this day I still get asked: “Ndoundou, where are your peanuts?”…twice a day. Now at first I thought this a silly question. Why would I, a Peace Corps Sustainable Agriculture Extension Volunteer, have my own field of peanuts? I don’t […]

Under 45 ml of water

(post from mid-July) I was skyping my mother during the first first week of July from the regional house, when I thought to give her a tour. So I brought my phone out to the road to give her a quick look as to what Kaffrine, Senegal looks like. Her response: “it’s very…brown”. After over […]