I realize I am shocking you all by updating so often, but I figure since I'm so far away from most of you I should let you know what's going on. A couple weeks ago I helped out at a Talibe centre to treat scabies. That was an experience. Scabies are little mites that burough in your skin and make you itch like CRAZY. We had to paint this special medicine on dozens of street kids. The treatment had to be done for 3 days and I helped out two days. Here is a picture from the first day:
Here I am painting the medicine on. It had to go everywhere, but thankfully I was only assigned to feet :).
I might post more pictures of this later, but I have to downsize the images because they are taking too long to load. Thank you to Mrs. B.I. for the pics! :)
On Tuesday we went to Goree Island, a place where they stored African slaves before shipping them to the Bahamas, the United States and Europe.
We are standing outside the famous "Door of no Return", on the shore where hundreds of people left Africa forever.
If you would like to know more about Goree and it's history, I did an Independant Study Project on Goree last year and I'm going to post my essay from last year on a blog. You can access it by clicking the link called "Atlantic Slave Trade" under "Cool Sites". I'll also include my English essay that talks about the book
Roots, the Amistad event and other slavery issues.
That's all for now.
If any of you have never tried boogie boarding, do so at the earliest possible opportunity. On Sunday (family beach day) we went to a beach where the surfer and boogie-boarder community hangs out. Brittany and I tried boogie boarding...that's where I met what I like to cal "The Wave". The Wave picked up my boad and stormed me all the way to shore. It was one of the biggest rushes I have ever felt in my life people...I was half afraid the waves would wipe me out, but at the same time I wanted to keep riding it forever, carving a path straight to shore. It was very, very sweet.
MKs do very random things. Let me explain. On Tuesday our fuse box broke...so we had no power. I decided that since I probably wasn't going to sleep anyway I would stay up and amuse myself till I got so tired I didn't care how hot it was. So I went downstairs to make rooibos (one of my many different kinds of teas...actually it's probably the best, it's red and from South Africa) and Brittany followed me. Somehow her, Emma and I all ended up in my corner of the bedroom toasting bread with chocolecca over the candle. Then I decided to melt cheese in a spoon over the flame. I think it was the best idea I've had all week. The cheese started to melt and then sizzle. The spoon ws like a mini-frying pan! I actually didn't stay up then because I had had my fun, and yes I admit it was just as much fun as anything I would have done by myself. (But Brit you will never know what I would have done by myself haha)
What else? Oh yes, Miss Pater is here and has brought a whole bunch of goodies from Holland. It is going to be very cool having her here for a week.
Now time for some random pictures:
This is me.
Oh no you can't
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Plumeria, my favourite flower (one of them).
Plumeria, my favourite flower in a bottle.
I am very proud to be the photographer of this lovely candid.
This is Brittany, Emma and me and we are all very tan :).
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