Tina Senegal

TinaSenegal is a blog about my life in Oussouye, Senegal. My greatest desire is for this village to experience the LOVE of Jesus Christ.

Monday, May 19, 2008

10 interesting things about Senegal

1. The customer is never right
2. Cars always have the right of way over pedestrians, because they are bigger.
3. Prostitutes have to carry an identity card and have a check up every month.
4. A traffic jam usually involves a car, a motor bike and a donkey cart
5. Being 21 years old with 4 years left of high school is not a shocker
6.When talking about ones brother it is often clarified that you have the same mother and father, or not.
7.It is not unusual for a mother to go to work leaving her two year old child to be cared for by the ten year old child
8. The Cassamance region is consider the Christian region while less than 5% of the population is either Catholic or evangelical Christian.
9. Underlying both Islam and Catholicism is the heavy presence of mysticism and animism.
10. The number one reason tourists come to Senegal is for sex!

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