Bonjour from Africa!

Hello everyone, I am sitting down to write my first official blog from Africa! Now I am in Dakar, a bautiful city on the coast of Senegal. The people here are so nice! After learning that I am only here for a day, two seperate people have asked me to stay with them "for at least a month" in order to see the city properly. How generous! That is not the plan, however, as tomorrow I will land in Bamako, Mali and there I will stay the next few months. Its very exciting to know I will soon meet the family I will be living with. I don't have too much to say, but I am safe and caught up on sleep, and now I am off to check out the plage (beach). Ciao!