WEEK 13
This week I took a mini vaca to visit my friend Megan, a fellow public health volunteer. She lives about 30 km from a beach resort, Bel-Air, which is one of the most touristy places in Guinea. Marissa, Phillip, and I stayed a couple nights with Megan in her village and got to meet a bunch of her friends and visit the health center where she is working. It was really cool seeing the diferences between my site and hers and having a chance to talk about projects we are working on.
Saturday we went to a fancy hotel in Bel-Air to check out the beach. The water was crystal clear, and the beach was white sand with tons of cool shells. Best part--no seaweed!! The weather was perfect, hot and sunny without a cloud in the sky and the water was cool and refreshing. It was an ideal beach day and things could not have been better...until lunch.
So the hotel we were visting is pretty expensive and we had kind of high expectations as far as buying food goes. When we tried to order for lunch they only had a few options including salads, sandwiches, and a few other things. No problem, we all found something that sounded appetizing and we placed our order. About thirty minutes later a server comes up to us on the beach and says their refridgerator hasn't been working and so they can only make a tuna sandwich, and it was going to be expensive. Well, after much deliberation, we decided to forgo lunch altogether and just ate a little left over bread and mango jam we had from breakfast. Despite this setback, the day was very relaxing, and a successful beach trip. I am definitely looking forward to going back : )
Some Pictures!!
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| Bel-Air |
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| Making rice at the primary school..three pots of rice, one full of sauce |
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| shredding gumbo to add to the rice |
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| students washing bowls |
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| rice with gumbo, ready for serving |
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| cooking hut at chez Kadiatou |
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| rice and sauce ingredients |
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| tub o' peanut butter |
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| washing rice |
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| mixing peanut butter with water for sauce |
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| onions and piment ready for piler-ing |
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| piler-ed pepper and onion |
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| rice and peanut sauce cooking |
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| lunch is served!! |
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| river separating Bintimodia from Katangoro |
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| our new bridge...and yes, it is as sketchy as it looks. |
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| across the bridge, walking to katangoro |
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| laundry day...bedding is the worst to wash |
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| all clean! |
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| Lamar pumping my water at the hospital |
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| freshly painted living room! |
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| bedroom..it's not as clustered as it looks, actually it's pretty spacious. |
