What a fantastic weekend! Saturday evening we headed in to town to grab some dinner and maybe watch a friend's band play but the show was canceled so instead we went to another bar to see a different live band. Unfortunately that band was just painful to listen to!!! But at the bar we ran in to Zahra...the women we traveled down from Mauritania with. She had a friend who was celebrating his birthday in the apartment right above the bar and we were invited to join! Turns out the people who lived in that apartment are a group of fairly well-established international artists who do international art and dance shows around the world! There was delicious Congolese food prepared....music playing and a really cool vibe. It was a lot of fun!
Then to top it all off, yesterday we went to the beach and spent a few hours swimming and playing in the ocean! This time the waves were much smaller and the undertow not bad - so we could actually swim! The evening we spent drinking tea and chatting with students in the film production program here at UGB. They are mostly international students (Congolese, Malian, Nigerian...) and very very funky!!
Not much new news on the strike situation. But there is a general sentiment that it will continue until the 24th when the second caf is supposed to open.We have started planning a trip to The Gambia and the Casamance region (southern Senegal) if the strike is prolonged!
At this point I've had a few discussions with students about the purpose of students not going to class. I am not getting any concrete answers but everyone keeps saying not going to class is pressuring the administration. Why and how? That is still unclear...
But the delegates are all going to Dakar tomorrow for some meetings with ministers and maybe things will be cleared up...
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