Randi and I arrived in Senegal hauling eight 50 lbs suitcases. Three years later, I'm shipping home sixteen boxes & bags together weighing over 500 lbs, courtesy of Air France Cargo. Their contents has changed, now filled with memorabilia.
Packing was done with care, inspired by our egg drop contest a couple of months back. An n'doep drum is packed tight with styrofoam pellets, wedged at either end by journals; a basket from the animist island of Eloubaline is packed in a hard-shell suitcase, and filled with towel-wrapped ceramics; two handbuilt ceramic figurines from a small local potter outside Oussouye are encased in foam, packed tightly in a plastic bin, placed inside a milk-crate, packed inside a thick-wall book box. Egg in a box.
There are no future yard sale items in this shipment; there is no excess. The Scoggins profited from the cast offs, many pieces of which are of particular cultural significance, as the old fish baskets from Seleki. Perhaps the new ISD middle and high school building, now under construction, will enjoy the donations.
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