hey all.merci merci for all the emails i have been reading them and thinking of responses in my head and then like the internet stops working or i start feeling guilty bc the other hannah is home more than me and i feel obliged to go home blah blah. will write back or call this week. anyway visiting my friend caitlin in her neighborhood right now which may or may not be somewhere in the sahara. it is hot as hell and the bugs are quite large.

anywho 2 weeks down. had thursday afternoon free and so went with some other toubabs - white people as we r called here- to a fishing village and artists market.aka awkardly took pics of fisherman and their beautiful boats and then went to this artist village where i bought a painting for12 bucks, instead of the 100 dollars the guy initially said it cost. was also cajouled into buying a hippotame -a little statue of a hippopatumus that makes me suprisingly happy.think the guy next to me just got electrocuted by his computer. the guys at the artist market know like 5 english words like special price for you and fan u while u r walking around = smart guys. rode in taxi for apx. 7 hours and then ended up in friends neighborhood where there was flooding and tons of traffic. it was around 6 so everyone was trying to get home to break fast =everyone is super cranky and caitlin and i ran across a highway to get home in a foot of water. stuff like that is starting to feel normal. that and sweat dripping down ur back into ur underwear all day.

friday went to the center of town where people flocked us and eventually u just start yelling i dont want ur stupid statue for only 4 bucks, or 1 cent for that matter. researched price of going to morocco for fall break- 1000 bucks. so xnay on that idea. in the afternoon got on bus for just forever and in total blind faith that it would bring us to the beach. and it did and when we got there some men sold us a little hut to sit under and protected us from artists who would come over to us and set up their artwork around us. just relentless but the beach was so beautiful it didnt matter. beach men even invited us to their fish party that night w french girls lol. fish?? hey thats new for senegal! rode home in taxi through a sea of cows. went to a club at night and felt like a freshman in hs bc when we got there at MIDNIGHT but no one was there so awkwardly walked around and then partied to american music w beautiful senegalese woman who dance in front of the mirror to check themselves out and old french men. great crowd. yesterday spent the day at goree island- an old slave island - very pretty and calm. obvi have more ppl selling u statues but beautiful color buildings that look like downtown new orleans. had a tour guide who was like hold my stuff for me and put all her shit in my backpack. and had friend albert hold her girly umbrella. oh ok sure,no problem. anyway off to research what to do for fall break in a month. im thinking spa.