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- It’s hot, but not as humid as the Midwest.
- Lots of people there speak better French than you: you really will learn from them.
- The music is brilliant.
- Senegal is a stable West African democracy, with peaceful transfers of power exemplary in the developing world.
- You can get an introduction to Africa without the commitment of a semester-long program.
- Dakar is no further from New York than Paris.
- The food is excellent and perfectly safe, with only common-sense precautions.
- You will meet people who really are not just like you, and some of them will become your friends.
- Senegal has very successful public health programs.
- Dean Diallo, an American who knows Senegal well, will be there.
- Did we mention the music?
- You get to propose a research project.
- Um, the Senegalese?
- It costs no more than Wash U’s other summer programs.