Le Premier Jour

Hey everyone! This is Hannah, updating you from Senegal. I have now been here for 4 hours and all in all, positive experience.  Flew South African Air to get here and sat next to some Senegalese family. Right off the bat, a woman in an awesome colorful long dress was sitting in my seat. So had to do the whole pleasantly get out of my seat routine. She moved over and 2 seats down was some man she was also traveling with. An hour in, I look over at the man and he secured a napkin under his glasses so it covered his mouth and nose. Senegalese tradition? Pretty soon after long colorful dress woman put the face mask provided by South African Air over her mouth. Now I was wondering if the air was infected or something. Then another woman comes over who seems to know these two people and is like I'm going to sit in the empty seat. Great! where the heck did you come from? very nice people though, heard them speaking to e/o and prayed to god it was in wolof  (local language opposed to wolof) bc i understood nothing. at one point i sneezed and they said oh you've got it too! got what? should i put a napkin over my face now? then the long dress woman gets up to go to the bathroom and decides she doesnt want to bring her glasses so hands them to me. sure, ill hold those for you. funny all these exchanges with minimal conversation. anyway, arrived at 5 am and was quickly asked by a man loading our luggage if i was married and told me he thinks he is in love with me. could he pleasssseee have my email? once we arrived the directors just kind of left us to get other people and there seems to be no plan for the day. breakfast was supposed to be at 8 or was it 8:30 or someone else heard 9? around 10 some bread arrived. :) living in dorms for the next few days and yes, the bathrooms have no toilet paper. but everyone seems very nice and have gotten to speak some french with a man who seems to be the gardener, or is he the garbage man? more soon! love, banana