Alladin et Le Roi des Voleurs

This is so bizarre.
I'm sitting in a cyber café at Cheik Anta Diop University, watching Alladin and the King of Theives in french. I haven't seen this film since I was at least 8 years old...but I can't believe how much of it I remember, even if it's in another language.

So on Sunday, Robin and I went to l'île de Ngor off the north coast of Dakar. We took a pirogues, which is a large, colorful fishing boat to get there. The island was bright and colorful like Gorée, but the beaches were muuuuuch nicer. The only thing is that if you want to sit down, you have to pay. But they have these really nice spots with mats and umbrellas for only 1000 cfa (about $2.25), plus someone will watch your stuff when you're in the water, which is good, because we spent most of our time swimming! The water was incredibly clear, though filled with a bunch of rocks. We hung out with some senegalese, who wouldn't believe that our names were Mariama and Aïcha (which they are...in Senegal). By the end of the day, I got one proposal, one phone number and a half hour of frisbee so I think that we did pretty well for ourselves. I think me and a few other people are going to go back this wednesday after class.

I just realized that Alladin was probably muslim. And I totally remember all the words to these songs. Hahahahaha "You don't come out of thin air...." ou ici , " tu ne tombes du ciel"

Oh, and we had a wolof quiz today that I thought I was going to fail and somehow beasted...which is good, because people want you to speak wolof here, not french. which makes sense, because who really wants to be speaking the language of their colonizers?