Drum roll please...

For those of you who had conversations with me before I set off on my grand adventure, the conversations went something like this:

Me: "Hey, I'm going to Senegal"
You: "Wow! When are you going?"
Me: "I'll be gone for all of Fall Semester"
You: "Cool, what are you going to be doing there?"
Me: "Um...well, it's a study abroad program, so I'll be taking classes and at some point doing an internship."
You: "What will you be doing for your internship?"
Me: "Uhhhh....."

Okay, so now after many awkward conversations, and me not having answers to questions, I finally have the answers!

I already related some of the info about the classes we're taking and stuff, there are language classes (french and wolof), International Development, Environment, Research Methodology, etc. Okay, so now about the internship:

The last week of October, I will be moving to a village that is southeast of Dakar, just north of The Gambia. It is an "ecovillage" called Mbam, population somewhere around 1000 or so I hear. I have yet to discover what exactly and "ecovillage" is, although I have found out that it means that the village is involved in a lot of conservation programs to take care of the environment. I will be working with a grassroots organization called ASPOVERCE, which stands for *deep breath* : l’Association Populaire des Volontaires pour la Réhabilitation et la Conservation de l’Environnement. Translation: Grassroots Association of Volunteers for the Rehabilitation and Conservation of the Environment. What I will be doing for said organization has not been revealed yet, but I hear they have projects having to do with reforestion, biofuels, and other conservation topics.

So there's the answer to all of those predeparture questions that I was unable to answer. :)