For lunch, he eats ceeb u jeen (the Senegalese national dish), or yassa (rice with onion sauce and meat or fish). His favorite dinners are chicken and spaghetti with an onion and tomato sauce. Remember that Senegalese people eat with their hands, so the spaghetti is super slippery! Senegalese pasta always has a bit of pumin which is Senegalese spicy peppers. For snack, he eats watermelon or papaya, which is shared with his entire family.
Momo's house has two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a bathroom, all in different buildings. In Senegalese villages, the kitchen and the bathroom are in different buildings than the bedrooms. These three buildings are connected by a courtyard, where the entire family relaxes and does the laundry and the dishes. Since Senegal is super-hot, Momo is always outside!
Momo buys the bread every day and often goes to the market.
His mother Coumba works at as a chef at Handisables, which is the organization I'm interning with. She cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner for 20 people! She also makes homemade peanut butter, which she sells to people in the village.
Momo has school Monday through Friday, and every morning he has school from 8am until 1pm. At 11am, all students take a thirty minute break to clean the classroom. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, he then has school from 4pm until 6pm, but he has the afternoon free on Wednesdays and Fridays.
