Senegal

Haven't been able to get on the internet much, security is a big issue so we can't caryy computers around much, same with cameras. I hope to get some pictures when we are doing our projects. The project I am a part of is Urban Agriculture, we are working on a container garden at a hospital, and trying to set one up at an orphanage. We are working in conjunction with SYTO, a group of Senegalese university students. The garden at the hospital is run by a US Peace Corps volunteer who we are also working with. I am definetly excited to get to the actual site and start working! The sail over was alright, but we had headwinds (so we couldn't use sails, and had to motor) most of the time, which usually happens like 1% in the trade wind area. Christmas was fun, we did a secret Santa, I knit a toque and I got a little anchor charm made of copper wire for my necklace as well as a canvas bag for my knitting stuff. Not much time until I'm home, but that also means saying goodbye to first semester students, which is a little sad.

This is the first from morocco

Morocco

Tunis was great, and morocco has been one of my favorite ports so far; we got to ride camels to a campsite where we stayed overnight, as well as getting to jump off of sand dunes, which was fun. I haven't had much time on the Internet so I'm going to upload a bunch of tunis pictures, then some from morocco. Hanukkah was cool onboard, the polish engineers made latkes and Dina made challah.

Tunis

Tunis was pretty interesting, we saw salt flats, the place where the first scene in Star Wars (the one with blue milk) was filmed, what the roach motels (roaches included) were like when we stayed out for a night, and many neat Roman ruins including an amphitheater and a temple. I particularly liked the Roman ruins, some of the architecture was very impressive. A small country, we toured a majority of it, but still definitely worth coming to.