No Lights, No Action

We were told before coming to Dakar that the city experiences power outages. I guess you don’t realize until you are in a situation how often it occurs and how it feels. At my place, the power goes out every 2 to 3 days. Sometimes it simply flickers and comes back on… other times it is out for a mere 30 minutes. Usually it is out for a number of hours. Today, it was out for 7 hours.

So, you have some options here:
• A sweaty, hot nap
• Read a book and sweat
• Go to school and hope the power is on there
• Try and find a friend that has power or a generator running

Or...????? I’ll be working on building up my alternative plans. It appears that I'm going to need them.