If you missed the bees, you would have mistaken us for one of the teams who had swarmed the region in the wake of Ebola just a few months earlier. Mesh face masks, red rubber gloves, black rubber boots and bulky jumpsuits exposing nothing, hiding even the fear. But there was no missing the bees
What’s next? I don’t know. I might move to San Diego, spend some time in New York City, go hiking for a month, crash on…
Who said a classroom had to have four walls? As a single working mother, Habbie rarely has a break, so I thought it’d be fun to move our study session to the riverside on her day off. She’s studying to take the high school exams, so she can meet the prerequisites for nursing school.
Did you know cashews grow on fruit? I had no idea! One tiny cashew grows inside a shell on the tip of a juicy fruit,…
Although it is commonly known in the village as “the poor man’s food,” mbahal is one of my favorite Gambian foods. I like to think…
There’s nothing better than your first swim of the season! It’s heating up around here again, and that means cooling off in the river. –JDF
