Moving In

I'm 37 years old, I'm a high school teacher, and I don't know what street I live on.

Welcome to Dakar, Senegal!  Here it's about landmarks, not streets and numbers.  So far, I have not found a Senegalese who really knows how to read a map of the city.  I know I live in a big apartment building that is called "The Rose Building" but it's no longer rose!  I know I live across the street from a gas station called Elton, around the corner from the Korean Embassy or Ambassador's residence, and a street in from the Corniche, which is the seaside road that rings the peninsula that makes up Dakar.  My neighbor/district is called Mermoz.  So when I'm downtown and want to get back home, I tell the taxidriver "Elton, Mermoz" and every single time, I arrive right in front of my home.  Attached I hope, will be pictures of the Corniche and of my apartment.  Enjoy!