Sometimes things just work out!

So since our training stage is all back together in Thies, we are "eating our money" as the wolofs say it! We go out in the evenings and share great stories and on the weekends we try to head to the beach or hit up Dakar. Last weekend was wonderful at a new beach none of us had seen and this weekend we were up for the same thing! We all trade off on resposibility, and yes, you guessed right, i was nominated to plan Mbour.

So after talking with a few people; we lined up a house for 20 of us for just 20mille... aka about 40 dollars. Too good to be true?! Obviously: we got there and the hotel guy came to pick us up from the garage just like he said he would, but instead of bringing us to his hotel, he brought us to his friends since his rooms were rented out. Terrific! Let the fun begin! A little background on the city, major touristy stop yet residental. Rich europeans would rather buy houses on the beach than rent right? so we all sat around talking with hotel and boutique owners. Everything was waaay out of our price range. Not really knowing just what to do, some random guy named Moussa called us over.

Moussa was on his way to the market with his gardener and seems to be quite a rich senegalese man. He said he haed a house that we could stay in and when i said there were 14 of us he said ok, 50mille, (100 dollars) no problem! haha well we dont exactly have money like that to throw around so i said i will only go with him to see this supposed house that i was extremely skeptical of since i had already been screwed once. I took one of the boys with me and we went to see the house.

so we take a few winding streets down the road, get to the most beautiful home youve ever seen. Danny and I were trying our best not to smile because this uy was about to offer his house to 14 white toubabs dying to crack open a beer and toss a football on the beach. There was one bedroom with 2 beds able to sleep 6, 2 bathrooms, a kitchen, living room, and loft. The veiw was a very nice sunset and he even has a pool, not to mention a back door to the beach, probably a pools length or 2 to water. He really wanted to have us pay 50mille, but i got him down to 30 and even though he wanted us out by 10 we talked him into 3pm.

After figuring this all out, we brought everyone back, locked up our things and went to play on the beach. Moussa didnt spend the night, but his 2 nephews did. 2 men in their 20s who partied and cooked along with us. We danced to loud music and they taught a few people to play the tam-tam! The house was beautiful and we did out best to clean it up this morning! Still cant believe what we got away with! Only in Africa can we wing it and end up better off... i think i spent under 15 dollars inbetween training and now!