Dear Mom and Dad,
Hello! This is David. Joyce showed me your post so now im going to tell you about some of my experiences in Africa and what i thought about them. The trip here has been pretty crazy to say the least but overall has been an eye opening experience and a lot not fun. The day we got here we went out to Engaparu which is a place down by the beach. We stayed at the beach house for the weekend and it was a blast. The trip down there was a long one and was full of new stuff to see. I feel as though going to El Salvidore really helped me not be too surprised about all the poverty and people, so i guess i handled it well. There is a lot of trash all over the place and even in the nicest of places. The air is a little thick and with animals roaming free sometimes it smells pretty bad. The roads on the way to the beach house were surprisingly worse than ours back home;) Once we got there it was beautiful on the beach and we played catch with a football on the beach with one of the kids we saw walking by. We also met some of the people their uncle knew from his work, who were staying with us at the beach house. That night the power went out and it has been doing that consistently throughout our trip, so by now we have gotten used to it. But regardless of there being no power we were still able to watch "Up." It was still good even though i have seen it a bunch of times, and it was a nice reminder of home which we all needed from our rough start in Africa. The weather here is amazing but very hot and humid, so sleeping takes some getting used to and the ocean breeze blowing through the beach house was a help in going to sleep. Communicating here is a lot harder than it was in El Salvidore, considering i know alomost no french or "Wolouef" the other language here. The next morning we went to a safari place which i have already told you all about in my other post. But it was a lot of fun and i can now finally say i have seen some amazing african animals. Then later that day we went to a European hotel where we got to swim in a pool and eat dinner at the same time. I ordered "poulet yassa" which is chicken and rice with a very interesting onion type sauce. It is a very African type of food and it was extremely delicious! Then we went and shopped by the beach a little and we all ended up getting something, i got a bracelet that Alexis said i should get and i have started to like it. We also tried some of the African tea which comes in three levels the first being very bitter and the third being very sweet. The owner of the store gave us all a taste of the first level and it was acually not that bad. We left the hotel restaurant and went back to the house to go on the beach. We collected a bunch of shells which the girls will turn into some gifts for their friends back home. Unfortunately none of us used sun screen so we all walked away a little burnt. We had a weird chicken cassarole thing for dinner and it was acually really good despite the fact it kind of looked like a grey blob. Then their uncle and his friends from work went boogie boarding at night while the rest of us sat under the stars at the beach. It was so open and you could see endless stars. But that was our last night at the beach house. The next morning we all got up and left to go to "Acrobaobab" It was a high ropes course and it was wicked cool! They showed us how the equipment worked and then we went through the mini practice course, then finally we were ready for the real thing. We started out climbing through a hole that was in the middle of a baobab tree and it was like rock climbing all the way to the top. Then we went on some short zip lines and bridge obstacles. it was tireing by the end but it was fun. Then it ended with a huge zipline and the people working there waited at the bottom with buckets of water they threw at us. The water was refreshing. Then we went back to the front desk and the owner there gave us the third level of tea, which was also very good but a little too sweet. We bought shirts and got certificates and then headed off back to their house in Dakar. That was our experience in Engaparu and it was tons of fun. But now i was just told that your post was asking about my thoughts when going to the Talibe Center, so im just going to end this post and make a new one for that. Bye.
-David
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