Thursday, February 08, 2007

I've been in Peace Corps nearly four months now and if I don't start blogging regularly I never will. But where to start?!

I am a Peace Corps volunteer in a small town in Senegal, West Africa called Ross Bethio. The town has 10000 people, mostly rice farmers as well as miscellaneous businessmen. We are just 50km east of St. Louis, a big city on the Atlantic Ocean, and just about 20km south of the Senegal River and Mauritanian Border. If you want to Google Earth me, I am at about 16 degrees latitude, 16 degrees longitude. I am in the Small Enterprise Development Program, and my job is to teach business skills to organizations and entrepreneurs hoping to start, expand or better manage their businesses.