hi everybody!
sorry, it has kept a long time...its just that not so much is happening since i am "just" working and not travelling - so there is not too much to say. but still i want to show you some pics.
haha, and since we hear everyday more details how much NSA and so on are able to read, absorb, safe and use later on, it also doesnt matter to have pics with people again. they know us anyway! fuck them!!
ooops...excuse my language! dear NSA, you are welcome to read this if you want (since it doesnt matter what i want)!
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| mirijam, gunter and my drugs |
sister mirijam (keine nonne, sonder nun meine schwester!!) has stayed in guabuliga for 7 month! it has been a pleasure to have you here - and my dear mum, you have an additional child again! mirijam left, and gunter came to ghana. we have been working together in uganda, and it was also really nice ti have him here. and the third party on the pics is drugs...i fell sick with malaria, and they also suspected typhiod fever.
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| ...so i had to take a lot of drugs... |
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| ...this was my breakfast. horrible...! i was just sleeping all day. the ones that know me better know that normally i do not take any drugs...so it was really too much for my body |
by the beginning of august i had recovered, and went back to the village. by then the shea nuts were ready. shea nut is one of the main ingredients in cosmetic products also in the west - but it grows for example here in the north of ghana. the ingredients are from here, but the money is made in a different place.
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| shea nut tree with shea nuts |
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| view from our water tank |
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| we are in the rainy season - people grow maize arond their houses |
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| the compund in which i live (the left house is my house) |
as it is rainy season, also the grass in our compound grows. one day we decided to use a goat to "cut" the grass...it was a very noisy night, and we found a different solution the next day!!
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| "rasenmäher" |
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| volunteers gunter and julia helped me to paint my room |
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| "feeling at home"... |
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| ...in... |
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| ...my room! |
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| people keep chicken in these baskets. they let them roam, but in the evening they collect them again and bring them to their house |
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| surprised rasta (sry 4 the pic, bro!) |
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| evening in tamale |
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| gunter made some electrical work shop |
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| our farm |
i am learning a lot in ghana - also a out religion. at home i was never close to people who are muslims, but here i am very close to some of them. e.g. half of our staff is muslim, i have a brother who is a muslim... as you might know in july and august ramadan took place. for 29 or 30 days (depending on the moon) the people are not allowed to eat during day (as long as the sun is up). when ramadan ends, people celebrate "sala" - its a very important day for muslims and there is a lot of food. people also give food to their friends...see what came to my house at sala day!
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| sala food |
i still ask myself a question and was not yet able to get the answer: how do muslims do when they live more north or south of the polar circle? at times there is just day, and at times there is just night. what would be the consequence?! if anyone knows the answer i am grateful! because it cant be that they have to fast for a full month continuously...or that they are allowed to eat throughout ramadan because the sun doesnt come out... anyway.
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| at mr. joes bar |
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| mr. joe in my house, drinking water (which is sold in 0,5 liter plastic bags. you bite it open and drink from the bag) |
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| tingpela road - the road to the next village |
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| around my house |
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| "sulminga, picture" |
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| the kids are always happy to see their own pictures |
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| around sun set |
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| enjouying tilapia... |
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| ...with my girlfriend! |
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| hmmm...thats just the short form of bolgatanga, a city closer to where i live!!! |
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| with my brother and our girlfriends |
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| like THIS, with our girlfriends!!! |
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| rainy season... |
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| ...means once a year enough water |
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| gunter doing some experiments |
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| here we go! |
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| since our car spoilt this is the mode of travel - if the motorbike is not there |
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| inside the trotro (bus) - at the station in tamale |
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| mosque in tamale |
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| cashew nuts in our compound |
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| the thing on top is like a fruit, the nut is below |
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| in guabuliga |
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| in front is a cage for cows in the night - the people who take care of them are half normads, and they are found in many west african countries: the fulanis |
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| africa! |
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| some interesting animal... |
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| ...inside the flower of okro! |
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| this is okro - in our garden! |
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| my boss sarah was here (left to me) - at the staff meeting |
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| with all our employees! |
i hope you are all doing well!
kind regards fom ghana, severin
