Back on Track

Yesterday was exhilarating and exhausting. I woke up at 7:00 am, and since Suffolk is doing construction on the soccer fields where I usually jog, I decided to jog along the Corniche. It was beautiful to watch the sun rising over the Atlantic with a few pirogues out in the water, especially after finishing “Old Man and the Sea.” Public Health was canceled (again), so I was able to check my Wolof homework and make some serious headway on my French presentation. I checked out a new fataya place with Isaac and Alicia – for the uninitiated, a fataya is basically meat and onions wrapped around fried dough. It reminds of a) my elementary-school bierocks and b) something you would see at a county fair but SO much better! After class and the obligatory web-surfing, I dropped my stuff off at home and went out to eat with my friend Molly at On the Run before heading downtown. While walking home, I noticed that campus was swarming with cream-colored butterflies – I asked the program director if this was an annual migration, but he said that he had never seen so many together in his life! The French Cultural Center and South Korean embassy were sponsoring a film festival and we saw “The Chanteuse du Pansori” about a tragic musical family. I returned at 11:00 pm, worked out a misunderstanding with the family which left me relieved, did some Pilates, and had a wonderful night’s sleep.