Post crash course on Senegalese culture and values:

I am actually much more excited to interact with my family now that I know a few more key aspects of the culture, a few more key phrases to listen to, and it helps that I know my host mom speaks French, which I was not privy to until this morning when she walked me to school. Which, by the way, I should not have freaked out about earlier, because it is literally right around the corner and takes about 2 minutes to get to :)

I just successfully set-up my first outing with my host brother, Papou (spelling?) A fly literally just landed on my eyeball. I am slightly distracted with excitement. Now some girls is doing a music video covering some US pop song in Wolof, while I'm snacking on a sweet ball of "naan" with Grandma (Maam). Today is drastically different from yesterday. It's amazing what spending one day trying to understand another's culture can do to building relationships. Although, I'm sure the time alone helped me build some confidence.
I'm almost having a difficult time journaling in English right now, simply because of my successful interaction with Papou a few minutes ago. That's kind of absurd, but it sort of catapulted me into French mode. Don't want to get over confident too early, but maybe I'll be able to work towards journaling in French :) All that happened was that I put some stuff together to go find somewhere to get on the internet, went downstairs to ask my host mom , Awa, where the closest place was, and she suggested I ask Papou to help me. I went to the roof asking for Papou, who was one of the few people who introduced himself to me yesterday (and who speaks English pretty well as I recall). No one responded, so I asked the other 2 guys for help, and they woke up Papou who was sleeping around the corner. Jealous! I want my bed to be on the roof :) Anywho, he was extremely friendly while I was very apologetic for waking him. "Ce n'est pas grave." He repeated himself with a laugh of insistance. He said he would take me to the cyber cafe after dinner. It wasn't in a way that he was putting me off, but more like he was planning on going anyways and was couretously inviting me to join him. Hopefully I'll be able to hold my own during a real conversation later. Finally, I broke the ice!
KU MUÑÑ , MUUÑ
(He who endures, smiles) :D