safe and sound in dakar

i just wanted to let everyone know i made it to dakar, senegal in the middle of the night last night! everything went remarkably smoothly and i'm staying with a girl from harvard, olivia, who is doing a fellowship in senegal too. it's nice to have a place to transition, but ideally i'll be finding a family to stay with while i'm here but the city's expensive and i have a feeling i'm going to adopt the same goal in madagascar of getting to the coast! we'll see :) time to run to lunch and change some money!!