I've officially been in Senegal for about two weeks and it has been the most eventfully two weeks of my life. My cohort and I had the pleasure to travel and spend part of the first week with the very famous program coordinator Adam Zeender, who was there for a site visit. We got to go inside the African Renaissance Monument and have our first experience "eating around the bowl" while at our hotel. "Eating around the bowl" is when Senegalese people gather around one big serving bowl and share the food rather than having individual plates for everyone. Typically people use spoons not forks and knives and I am very impressed with my host family's ability to cut meat with one spoon. On my third day in Senegal I finally met my host family. They welcomingly greeted me and gave me a tour of the house. I have a mom and dad, two sisters, Aby is 17 and Sophie is 13, and a brother who's 23. My first night I went to the pizza shop close by with my sisters to grab ...