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| Katie Mae and I at Cape Coast Castle |
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| Katie Mae and Sheldon eating their first bites of fufu...it does take a little getting used to :) |
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| Our hut at Oasis Beach Club in Cape Coast...mom and dad I think I will take you here :) |
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| Playing Oware at Zion's house in Butre. |
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| Zion cooking us banana pancakes at his house...he has some kickin dreads up under that hat! |
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| Ran into some other PCV's. Chillin at Zion's. |
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| Me enjoying my new camera on Butre Beach |
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| Sheldon taking his beach run at Butre...yes, he's a personal trainer. |
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| Katie Mae doing her first round of bucket laundry. |
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| Katie Mae pounding fufu at Fo Nicho and Esther's |
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| Sheldon pounding fufu at Fo Nicho and Esther's |
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| I love this pic! The men at Cape Coast pulling in the fishing nets from way out in the ocean. It took over 3 hours (we left after 3 hours) to pull this in. They sing and someone beats the drum to keep the pace of the pulling...really cool! |
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| Us with my chief and elders after they poured libations. |
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| Love this pic, too. Cute lil' popcorn seller on Cape Coast Beach |
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| My kids drumming and dancing for us...this was before the "actual" ceremony/show. This was just for fun! |
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| Girls in my village in their outfits dancing....they be shakin' it! |
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| Cape Coast Castle...our huts are right down the beach from it. |
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| Girls in my village gettin' it. Most of these girls are in my after school club. |
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| Katie Mae and kids on the Cape Coast Beach. This guy is Prince...he's from Lebanon, lives in Accra and is f'n hilarious!!! |
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| Lena and Confi batikin'...no, curlers are not mandatory. |
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| Typical scene on batik day....kids running, butts in the air...a comfortable chaos. |
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| The stuff in the bowl in konkunte...cassava powder mixed up...which we eat. But you can also use it with lace to make a really cool fabric pattern! |
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| Our cauldrons bubbling on batik day. |
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| Me and a piece of mystery beef that I was cutting up to cook Easter Spaghetti with. |
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| They don't castrate their steers, so when they kill one all the testosterone rushes to the meat and you can taste it...and smell it...it's gross. |
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| Chris with what we decided was probably part of the liver...but we don't really know. We threw that chunk out to the dogs. |
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| Monkey attacking his thick piece of cow skin. |
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| Francis loving the brownies I baked for Easter. Between him and Chris....geeze...those boys eat! |
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| View out to sea from Cape Coast Castle window. |
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| At Cape Coast Castle |
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| Cannons at Cape Coast Castle |
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| Yup, you guessed it...Cape Coast Castle |
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| Fishing area on the beach in Cape Coast |
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| View towards our huts from the castle. See the line of men on the beach still pulling in the fish (far scene)...this was 4 hours after I started watching. At 6:30 am when I started watching they were way down where the single man is walking out of the water (near the camera) and now they are way down on the other end by the boats (far scene). Our huts are closer than the boats and line of men. |
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| Katie Mae, Sheldon and I at the castle next to the Obama plaque from his visit last year. |
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| Beach at Butre |
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| Drumming and shaking jam session at Butre |
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| Door of No Return at the castle...this led to the ships |
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| Me pounding fufu at Chris's house. |
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| Apeteshi (moonshine) distillery in the bush in Chris's village. We were out their collecting our palm wine :) |
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