Today I met the son of Samba Sene, the man who works at our apartment in New York. He is Senegalese, so in December I told him I was going to Senegal for the semester. He was really excited and gave me the number of his son, Papa Sene. Before coming here I thought it would be weird to just call a random stranger to come visit, but now that I've been here for a month I've realized the culture of hospitality and friendliness is so strong that it is completely normal to visit someone with even the smallest connection. After calling him on the phone I asked my host mom if he could come visit Saturday. She said "of course you don't need to ask for permission, this is your house you can invite whoever you want" which I thought was really nice!
So he came to visit today and I introduced him to my host family. I'm so used to be the guest in my house that it was fun to finally be the host bringing a guest home. We walked to the beach and then came back and ate lunch. He is really nice and invited me to visit his family in a few weeks so I'm looking forward to that.
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