Peace Corps volunteers from around West Africa have converged on Dakar for the West African Invitational Softball Tournament, a three-day event which, for many volunteers, is a welcome departure from their isolated village life.
WAIST is an appropriate acronym for this colorful event, both for the amount of alcohol consumed, and the partying that carries on well into the wee hours.
There are two softball divisions, competitive and social, though there should probably be a third division called I'm-too-tired-to-get-the-ball-into-the-strike-zone-but-do-you-like-my-mismatched-knees-socks-and-pirate-sword.
The event is sponsored by the US Embassy here, and includes softball teams from the Embassy, ISDakar, Dakar Academy (a boarding school which serves the children of parents doing missionary work), USAID, three Senegalese teams, and a smattering of others.
The top picture above was taken above the Club Atlantique, and shows ISD to the left, the sea to the right, and more toubabs than the pool deck has seen in the past year. No doubt the Club profits nicely with the WAIST tournament, from the sale of Gazelle beer alone.
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