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The radical love, selflessness and openness of Senegalese culture continually challenged me to do better. 
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Teranga: what it means to prioritize people

 For these students, teranga meant slowly walking by our sides and supporting us as we learned to live in Senegalese culture  - it was welcoming, it was protective, and it was love without expecting anything in return. 


Yasmin Teixeira is a Life columnist for The Cavalier Daily.
Life

A not so restful spring break

With the summer approaching, I encourage students to find time to rest in the midst of summer classes, jobs and internships — and become comfortable with not being productive all the time. We all deserve it. 


Creating playlists has become a particularly gratifying hobby of mine, as well as collecting vinyl records of my favorite albums from a range of artists. I view both as a form of curating the personal archive of music that I’m currently attuned to.
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Music and its power in my life

Whether I’m at a concert or listening to music in the shower, I find solace through a song as it plays and metaphysically takes me back to some setting of my past.


 With a smaller meal plan than the unlimited plan first years use, I was thrown into the challenge of figuring out where to buy groceries 
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Learning from my groceries

Whether it meant financial sacrifice or sacrificing my time, I made sure to choose grocery stores based on my needs at the moment, not on any expectations I had for myself.