Thursday, November 29, 2007
A slice of paradise.
Hi Hi! So today is friday.I havent written in a few days and feel there is much to say. Wednesday I went to Kokrobite beach with jessie, a guy called sam and a carpenter.We went to set up a little store down at the beach for the beads project jessie has just started up. Basically abadoned children come to workshops each day and make beaded jewllery which we then sell and all proceeds go to their education fund so they can go to school.Its an awesome project and the beads are really kool aswell so I think it will do reallywell.Anyway Kokrobite was a beautiful place bigpalm trees and beautifulsand and water. we set up this really great wooden stall at this garden/hotel thing which took ages then had a little swim at the beautiful beach and a smirnoff ice with a pizza and beautiful fruit smoothies :) It was lovely and a very productive day. Wednesday night we dyed jessies hair I think, which was a bloody ordeal considering there is no running water. It was pretty funny though trying to dunk her head in a bucket of water. Had dinner with all the gang at TH's house (denmark dude) which again took ages because the stove broke so we had to cook the food on coals borrowed from the neighbours! A new girl Danika from the US just came this week aswell and shes a kool.Chatted in our room for ages then off to bed. Yesterday I was around at the school did a few classes then had a meeting with the after school tutoring program guys. Was a bit exhausting to be honest. it can proove to be quite frustrating to get some people here to take initiative rather than hanging off every word a white person says.Obrunnis speak the gospel in regards to organistion. Some of the men had great ideas though they just need to trust in them. Anyway got a fair bit of work to do for them before I leave. I also some how got roped into taking passport like photos of year 9 kids for their exams? Part of me wants to stay longer here but the other wants toleave and travel a bit more.Only decided this morning what I would do. Last night went to the guys dance practice at the liberian culture centre oncamp.The volunteers who have been here for ages have been getting drumming and dance lessons and have a performance on sunday. The centre does lessons with the kids and is a really important place for the camp.The kids were so happy seeing obrunnis dancing..it was lovely. Im very happy at the moment and things are going reallywell.excited about everything. anyway Im going to getkickedoff here in 5 minutes so I have to go.Got my hair braided again here.Its a very goodthing to do Ive noticed men give you less attention and women respectyou more.about to head to the kokrobite beach for aparty tonightand leave the camp next tuesday and will be travelling up north with this american girl anita and a few of her friends.should be fun! x
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Hey V! just got on the conp after you blogged this. Just missed you. It was great tal;king with you the other night. Make sure you get that guys contact details from denmark. ill be in copenhagen for a while. Might need a place to hitch up. Anyway thats pretty greedy! im so glad your happier now! indulge in it. Ive gotta head off im using the computers at work and gotta get home. Work in the morning. Working flat out. Love you long time my kool obrunni friend
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