My brother is currently over in Senegal right now and he's enjoyed his experience so far. He's had a few issues with the host family he was placed with when he first got there and some issues with their bank screwing up his pay shortly after he first got there. Which led him to have to beg his fellow peace corps people for money for a couple days because it got screwed up over a 4 day weekend when the banks were closed. He's told me that pretty much whenever a group of peace corps volunteers get together, they usually end up drinking a lot. hahaha. He's still got a long time left over there so I don't have to much beneficial info to you to give about what it's like when you get there. The application process can take some time, so you need to be really committed if it is something you want to do. He decided november 2011 that he wanted to do it and put in his application. He had a degree in ecology and a degree in french, so that was a big plus for him and got the ball rolling for him a lot quicker than it might have for other people.(He's in Senegal which is a french speaking country and his job will be building stuff for farming or doing something farming related, so his degrees certainly helped him get chosen for this place) He had his interviews in the spring of 2012 and they gave him a list of things he needed to do before they could send him over there. One of the things was that they wanted him to get more forestry/farming experience. So he had to get in contact with some people we knew and he worked with them over the summer last year. Then mid september 2012, he was off to Senegal for 2 years.
