Aslaamalekum!

That is 'hello' in Wolof, more accurately peace be with you...I think. We had our first Wolof class yesterday so we've been trying to practice by greeting the people on our walking route on the way to the university. One fellow student has taken to talking to a man who charges people to take pictures of his monkey. We found this out after someone tried to take a picture and he popped out demanding money. Since we hadn't been to the bank, we didn't have any local currency and now he's forgiven us. He gives the monkey oranges so you can take action photos of it eating. I'm pretty sure that's his entire job...We also went to the beach and the water was warm. The beach was a little rocky but that's because it wasn't one of the more popular resort beaches, it's just very close to Suffolk University; which is where we take our classes. The food is amazing! It's very flavorful and a little spicy. The other day we even had french fries. All of the students from our program have devoured the few jars of the Senegalese version of Nutella the cafeteria managed to get us. There's always plenty of bread readily available. Today we learned about our host family. I'm staying with another girl from our program in a large family with a lot of small children, I'm really looking forward to moving in with them on Friday. I haven't taken too many pictures, but I'll post some when I do.