Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Mamadu and Me


This is my new friend, Mamadu, who works in the Hotel Kharkiv as a bellhop. He is from Senegal originally and is has been in Ukraine for the past four years studying economics. I have had several long discussions with him. He is from a large family of seven children in Senegal and has not seen his family in four years. He speaks Soninke, French, Arabic, English and Russian. He lived for four years in Cairo and is a devout Muslim. We discussed families, living abroad and education. He plans to return to live and work in Senegal.

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