Senegal Schedule

Our Travel Schedule

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Nan and I have been communicating with our Senegal host teacher, Papa to plan our time in Nioro du Rip. SO EXCITING! Our flight arrangements have been made. We will all fly from our respective areas in the USA (LAX for me) to meet in Atlanta. From Atlanta, we will travel as a group to Paris. Yay #TeamSenegal! From Paris, we will travel to Dakar. Although I will leave LAX at noon on Monday, I won't arrive in Dakar until 8pm on Tuesday. All of #TeamSenegal will spend time in Dakar together until Friday or Saturday. Depending on our community travel, we will leave and head out by plane or car/bus/van. It is approximately 235km from Dakar to Nioro du Rip, which is approximately 146 miles. It will take us 4-5 hours to travel from Dakar to Nioro du Rip by car/bus/van. We will spend a week in Nioro du Rip with our host teacher learning about the education system and visiting cultural sites.

The above schedule is tentative, and we don't have any Dakar details to add yet. But, it is all coming together so nicely! In Nioro du Rip, we have plans to spend time at a local elementary school, a local high school and a private school (whose founder is Senegalese and lives in Washington, DC). In addition to classroom observations, Nan and I will be teaching many lessons in Nioro du Rip. We will be teaching both at the elementary level and the high school level. At the high school level, we will be teaching an 11th-grade science lesson, a 10th-grade language lesson and we will be teaching an after school English club lesson. We will have the opportunity to meet with teachers and administrators and will be looking at our time in Nioro du Rip through the lens of our guiding question. Nan and I decided that our guiding question is "How are schools similar/different in Senegal and the United States, specifically in regards to technology use and access?"

Nan and I will also be able to visit the local city library, the market, the radio station and a Senegalese cultural show. We will also be able to experience Senegalese tea time and traveling by horse-drawn cart. We will be visiting a pre-historical site called Sine Ngayene with some students and teachers as well. I can't wait!