Mansea Beach Hotel Kololi

Da die letzten Tage nicht viel passi**t ist, ich ab** Lust habe was zu schreiben, kommt hi** noch die ein od** and**e Kleinigkeit zu Gambia... In letzt** Zeit hab ich ja oft ueb**s Wett** geschrieben. Mal Regen, mal Sonne, ab** imm** heiss. Das liegt daran, dass g**ade die Regenzeit in die Trockenzeit ueb**geht. Wint**, Somm**, H**bst und Fruehling gibts im tropischen Afrika naemlich nicht, sond**n nur diese beiden Jahreszeiten. Die Regenzeit ist ...

... vorbeifahren wuerde, und das waere hier mitten in der Einoede zwischen Brikama sowieso schon rappelvoll gewesen. Also die Schuhe fest zugeschnuehrt und sich zu Fuss auf die Socken zum Compound gemacht. In den folgenden anderthalb Stunden sollte ich fast ununterbrochen in der prallen Hitze ohne Muetze sieben Kilometer bis zu meinem Anschlusstaxi nach Manjai zuruecklegen, gefuehlte sechzehn Liter Fluessigkeit verlieren und mich darueber wundern, ob man hier wirklich vier Stunde ...

... Schuhe und die Tempo-Klo-Kombination. Der Einsatz chemischer Kampfstoffe wird aber schon vorbereitet, auch wenn ich dabei bestimmt die Biowaffenkonvention, den Atomwaffensperrvertrag oder sonstwas missachte. Mir bums, die Viecher muessen RAUS!! Abgesehen davon laeuft seit drei Tagen mein kleines Anwalts-Praktikum beim Herrn Bola Carrol in Banjul. Seit Dienstag sieht mein Tag in etwa so aus: 7.30 Uhr aufstehen, 8.00 Uhr an die Hauptstrasse und ein Minibus ...

... ist, brauchte ich ab** Kohle, bevor ich mich auf Hotelsuche begeben konnte. Als ich einen Polizisten nach einem Geldautomaten fragte, ho**ten natu**lich zehn and**e mit und waren mir sofort "behilflich". Wa**e d** Automat nicht von einem weit**en Sich**heitsmann bewacht worden, haette ich die Typen wohl nie auf Abstand halten koennen. So konnte ich ab** in all** Ruhe 50.000 CFA abheben (jedoch wied** nur mit d** Maestro - Airport-Automaten scheinen meine VISA nicht zu moegen) und ...

... hours over some bumpy and dusty roads to Diouibou, all for 1 pound. Lots of commotion, haggling, jostling every time the minibus stopped in villages. Although infrequent, the demand for this transport is very much there. Arrived in Diouibou, the night before market day. What a scene! Asked around for accommodation and was lead to the only 'petite auberge' in town. No electricity only candles and the shared facilities had no ...

... than themselves. In a country where the majority of people live in absolute poverty, I am in awe to see how committed people are to fulfilling this obligation. But it's not just about the diet. Ramadan is also about prayer, charity, self-reflection and spiritual cleansing. The devout are expected to refrain from listening to non-religious music, watching irreverent tv, losing their temper, engaging in gossip or sarcasm, or having impure ...

... I do not want to just disregard the diff**ent p**spectives I'm hearing...I want to und**stand them, and that takes more open-mindedness than I currently have. Luckily, for my sense of moral stability, th**e was one issue we confronted, outside of the classroom, that did not require any relativity. On my birthday we went to a night club we'd been to once or twice before. We w**en't supposed to pay a cov** on Mondays, but when the first group arrived and we w**e told we ...

... space exploration activities; just one of the many entertaining contradictions I have come across so far. When we arrived here we were greeted with the fact that money defiantly speaks in country's like this. our original site is now a eliminate mine so we were shuffled down a few hundred meters. to add insult to injury the national bank here has never heard of a bank draft, so our $20 000 for building supply's was floating around ...

... I am not authorised to treat anybody who just feels sick without a doctor's confirmation. I can treat asthma and HIV/Aids and the cure is a day's treatment. Within three days the person should be tested again and I can tell you that he/she will be negative. After the treatment, they have to go to the RVTH for a test again. As I said, I will not treat anybody who is not diagnosed as asthmatic or a HIV/Aids patient by a doctor. I don't want to give my medicine ...

... with Dembos aunts. We were sitting in one of the rooms of the house (cement box, 2 beds with mozzie nets; curtains instead of doors, cement walls between rooms but donnt reach the ceiling) when an older woman came in and exclaimed; "Oh! Dembo! Shoom-moh-leh?" This was his sister and they hadnt seen each other for 45 years so it was a bit of a reunion! So, ready for the first group to arrive. All will go well; inshallah!