another dutiful post

this is going to be quick because I'm holding a charwma sandwich in one hand and typing with the other. The EE class went on a field trip to an animal reserve today. Basically there are a lot of animals there that may or may not have once roamed free in Senegal, but don't now. They were imported from South Africa. I'll upload a few photos.

It was a good time, felt a lot like an elementary school outing minus the bag lunch (plus there was a little shot of passion fruit liquor at the end). We sat in benches mounted on the bed of pickup trucks, and the driver raced around shamelessly chasing animals. We followed a white rhino for five minutes before he finally got tired of us and hid in the bushes. Then we got out of the truck to chase a small herd of giraffes. The seats were a little dangerous, because there were a lot of thorny branches in the way and now my arm is throbbing. I'm not sure how all this helps us as environmental volunteers, but I don't care.

One last thing, we saw a cemetery tree. Apparently the Animalists in Senegal used to place corpses in the Baobab trees. This stopped in the 1960s (I think) when the president made it illegal. The tree we saw had the remains of about 150 people in it. I didn't take a photo of the skulls because I thought that would be tacky.