The AgFo boys & their mustaches at swearing in
swearing in reception
Alex taling to his mom
Mat overlooking the ocean
Mai & me
Fula Kunda four
My favorite LCH's (they teach us language & culture)
Rodney, my big harry boss on the right
Happy to be real Volunteers!
Ahhh, more mustaches - you can never get enough.
Coleen is close to my site
My favorite driver, Sam
Mark & Suzi
Ambassadors residence
Mark and I representing Nebraska & Iowa
The Stodge is where we stay in Kombo (PC House)
YaYa, the Stodge manager
Stodge
Getting ready to go to site. It takes a Gambian to load the Land Cruisers
Maffe, my lunch EVERY DAY
back door & water filter of my hut
front door of my hut
i sit on one trunk and put my 'bowl' of food on the other trunk (my table)
mosquito net
back door
toilet
everyone gets cracked heals in the dry season - thanks mom for sending the foot file! A MUST have here.
in the process of loosing my second toe nail - see its all white
Chalco add.
My new bike!
With really miss-adjusted brake levers!
Coos and fish - What i have for breakfast and dinner EVERY DAY
Getting ready for Christmas dinner (pot luck)
The big round pot has Baobab juce, the best stuff in this country! I want to export this suff - absolutely AMAZING!!!
Enjoying X-mass dinner
On the ferry
On the ferry...The onion sacks under the truck are stuffed with chickens
More chickens going to market
Ferry to Banjul
Alex shaves his head
Look at my Rido! (window & door fabric) for privacy & to keep the amount of sand blowing in my house down.
Bike with correctly - adjusted brake levers
Photos of loved ones & a map of Gambia. Lynn - what do you think of my decoration style?
My roof. yes I am really in a mud hut with a thached roof. The grass roof is MUCH cooler than the corrogage roofing. The only down side? The grass and dirt from the roof accumulates on EVERYTHING! ( I must wipe off my bed everynight before I can lay down)
Look at the Helmet box! Now it is a bran-new 'car' that the kids play with.
My family
They made a sepparate 'car' from the bottom part of the helmet box. They cut out weels out of old, broken flip-flops. Genious.
My hut is the white one. Just like me in village, the white one! Ha ha.
Sarjo cleaning fish
Ramata with her newest daughter - Mariama - the second one named after me.
I gave one of the women my old paper to use in the fire for when she cooks. Well that did not happen, she gave all my paper away to the kids - I don't think they have ever seen colored paper before. They were sooo excited.
Wouri. My little sister speaks good english - she helps me alot when I don't understand things.
Salimina making attaya - the tree you brew 3 times.
Kebba - one of my favorites - I have tought him 'High five"
Yes. they pick lice out of eachoers heads almost daily.
Banannas at Chamen
The nursery at Chamen
Pappaya
More bannanas
Kebba wattering
Solar powered tanks that supply the water at Chamen
Dr. Karim on the left - he is a contractor for the UN - FAO helping at Chamen
Mangoes
The men spend the better part of the day sitting under this mango tree at Chamen
Chamelion! The day before one climbed inside my bike helmut - and turned gray!!
horse cart
Guinea fowel
My compound
Journaling
Kebba sitting in front of my door (favorite hang out)
One of the prettiest girls in village
Sunrise from my back yard
burning/clearing the land at Chamen
Road to my village
My house is right next to the mosque
Noting better than a baby in a bucket.
Getting ready to leave for WAIST
Cramed in to the back of Tom's jeep. CRAMED
Tom
Eddy at a bitik (think Gamvian convenience store)
Josiah & Liza
Chyanne
Dakar
Getting ready to play some softball!!!
