I have been holding off writing this simply because it is so difficult to encapsulate my entire experience here in a few words.I do not have the capacity to describe how my last day in Dakar feels, frankly because it feels like any other day. I have never been to a place so alive as my neighborhood of Ouakam in Dakar.
I am officially done with final exams at The University of Edinburgh. It’s very relieving but also kind of crazy that I only have one more year left of university. The past three have gone by so quickly! My plans for the rest of the semester include a trip with my good friend from GW, Diane, to Munich, Budapest and Prague and a trip with my flatmate, Gabrielle, to Isle of Skye. Just because I am done studying abroad doesn’t have to mean that I am done travelling abroad!
Power outages. When the power goes out in cities in the United States, it makes front pages news for weeks. When the power goes out in Dakar, you grab a flashlight, a drink, some good friends and rest on the fact that you probably will not have electricity until the next morning.
I’ve been caught in a flurry of travelling and studying for the past couple of weeks but I just got back from my incredible spring break trip to Amsterdam, Berlin, and Vienna.