Goree Island

Today after church we went to Goree Island, which is right off the coast of Dakar. it is the one place that i regretted not getting to go to last year. it is a small island that was the last place slaves were sent before being shipped out. i stood in the "door of no return" which was...weird and dramatic...the doorway that slaves walked out before stepping onto the ships. other than the fact that slavery is all together bad, the island itself is beautiful! it has gorgeous architecture, flowers, grass, and it was actually pretty clean. in case you dont know, senegal is very much desert-like, so we dont see flowers and grass very often! there were a lot of tourists on the island, which was also different...because in yoff we are the only white people around. on the ferry ride back we actually secretly stayed with this ex-us marine for comfort, because we were haggled so much. in all it was fun and relaxing and very hot!!!
now the taxi ride home is a completely different story...we had a super baax ul driver. needless to say, i am very stubborn and only paid him half the price when he refused to take us to the place i had said. we literally jumped out of his car and into another one!!! we were not in danger, but he was a rather large and angry Senegalese man. (i dont play games, i skipped recess!)