if you want to hear a cool hip hop senegalese sound...you can check out the free podcast from itunes...it's called ( Read more... )

how could i forget? guess who's coming to senegal? Snoop dogg. and akon (he's senegalese). i'm pretty excited about that....also, rumor among the americans is laura bush is coming. seriously. we'll see if that happens...but that's the plan ( Read more... )

okay...so today i started learning some drum making technique. i absolutely love the guy i'm working with, he's great and the work will be tough. his name's allissan and his drums are absolutely beautiful. i had to cut down all my fingernails this afternoon. and i have some cord wrapping homework. today we did some wood working repairs, ( Read more... )

This week, after the festival, is kind of a down week ( Read more... )

SO...after leaving memphis, i was delayed in brussels for 13, count em, 13 hours! craziness, but i met a real nice guy from guinee and his brother and we talked over lunch and i calmed down a lot. i was a bit unnerved before. then i arrived in dakar at 4AM (supposed to be 3PM) only to find my luggage was lost. true, it is africa, but that's ( Read more... )

two things struck me as funny in the past month and a half that i wanted to share

1- my organic chemistry teacher held a help session that started at 9pm and ended at 11pm...he was wearing a t-shirt that said

dating a chemist will lead to enjoyable late night bonding.

2- i can't remember right now.  but it was funny and it made me ( Read more... )

mr willson: "mimi, saw your quote in the commercial appeal today about getting drunk in the grove."

me: "what? what did i say?"

mr willson: "oh just something about getting drunk and throwing up in the grove...haha"

me: haha...**thought bubble** what the heck?

SO i decided to check it out...perhaps i did say something to someone at the commercial ( Read more... )

SO...

FRIDAY & SATURDAY

6-9 PM  @  New movie theatre off of SISK AVE

UM STEEL DRUM BAND

FREE!!!  OUTDOORS at the ampitheatre, very cool hip place

(they sell beer)

***we play the same set at every hour, it's totally cool to come and go at your leisure...so leisure on over!***  =)

ahhh a good day. saturday ( Read more... )

so i watched team america with my mom and sister which was a bad idea. but nobody warned me! i totally forgot about the ruthless marianette sex scene and whatever else happened that i was blushingly embarassed about to be watching with my mom ( Read more... )