Hello there and happy holidays! I got to go home for the holidays, and I feel so incredible lucky. I am writing this now completely jet-lagged from my flight back to Senegal.
While home I got to do all the amazing home things, bake, play board games, watch movies, go ax throwing, you know the usual. I was also fortunate to give a presentation to my mother’s preschool class about Senegal. Her class does world cultural reports where her five-year-old students researches a country and presents on it. So I did this year's first world cultural report.
I am not an expert on Senegal after living there for just 10 months, but it was fun to show these kids about a place in the world that they might not have known. I told them about how people eat, dress, celebrate, and live. I told them the different animals that we had and how I saw them almost everywhere I went. I even taught them how to do a simplified dance in Senegal, because, I’m sorry, I cannot dance like any of the beautiful women here.
The next day I spent baking and baking and more baking. My mother came home and said that she had a mother of one of the students come up to her and say how much her child enjoyed my presentation. How they couldn’t stop talking about it and said that “that is what I want to do when I grow up, learn about the world” and at that point I started to cry. But my mum wasn’t finished because the child and the mother went to library immediately to get books about the world. I was just so overjoyed that my little presentation inspired this quite student in a class... and more tears came
And I realized that that is what I want to do when I grow up as well.
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