I leave in just over a month and he past month has been filled with a lot of paperwork preparing for next semester. I have signed my name, indicated my country of citizenship, given my birthday, and filled out my address more times than I can possibly remember in the past month. Besides the medical forms and liability forms (apparently if I get seriously injured or killed it is nobody's fault but my own), I have also selected possible classes and applied for my visa.
The week before Thanksgiving I shipped my passport overnight to Travisa who forwarded my passport to the Senegalese embassy. Fortunately with CIEE I do not directly pay for the cost of my visa because it is included in the general travel costs. I know many other companies require individual students to pay for their own visa,. Thus, I have been without my passport since November 16th but it was delivered back to me this afternoon with the visa in place! Yay!
The other very exciting pre-departure thing I have done over the past few weeks was choosing my classes for next semester. My class selections are based on the assumption that I will test into Advanced French (which is what my adviser expects) and are: Advanced French, Wolof For Beginners (Wolof is the local ethnic language), Contemporary Senegalese Society and Culture, History of Islam, and International Law and Crisis Management in Africa. Except for Wolof all of the classes will be taught in French.
Soon I shall be posting more frequently about actually being in Senegal!
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