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Life Experience You Only Want to Have Once

You spend your free time washing your clothes in a bucket, hang them up on the clothes line, and then come back the next day to find that a bird pooped all over your clothes. 

There is no electricity = no fans = melting & Mosquitos = no sleep 

Like rolling blackout lack of electricity. Everywhere. For days. Everything is running on generators.

The only thing that's changed is that instead of 25 dalasi to $1, it's now 38 to $1. And everything is 2 dalasis more expensive. 

Bah the infamous WWF

    Tomorrow I get on a plane and head back to The Gambia for the first time in three years. While it's hard to travel solo to a country you've never visited before, I think it's just as complicated to revisit a place you love so much and haven't seen in a long time. Not visiting Maryland for a while is much different than being away from a developing country for years. I'm worried I won't remember how to get around, or recognize where I am, or that people I've thought about for a long time won't recognize me. Although I'm scared that the country itself won't live up to the mythology that I've created in my head, I get to spend three weeks with my amazing friends...and some kickass wildlife.