SNAPSHOT> Where I Live
Trip Start
Sep 08, 2006
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Trip End
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Banjul,
Gambia
Friday, October 20, 2006
My house
My street (usual wandering goats strangely absent)
Gambians traditionally live in compounds with a number of houses/huts gathered around a shared yard.
Woman pounding millet in my compound
The compound yard is the centre of all activities - cooking, washing, meeting etc.
My compound (inc orange trees!)
My compound is a small one with only three houses occupied by myself, my landlady and her family, and another VSO vol - Alvean who is a deaf volunteer from Ireland.
With Alvean - other VSO vol in my compound
My compound is located in a relatively wealthy area of the Kombos and has luxuarys such as sporadic running water and electricity.
My walls. They let in light, air and mosquitoes
I'm also lucky enough to be close to the beach.
The local beach
I have a gas cooking range but I'm mostly too scared to use it.
Pretending to cook
I share my house with:
- Plagues of ants
- a number of ghekos, all named Bob
- the odd cockroach
- any VSO vol too lazy to walk home (my house is very central and has a spare room)
Inside my house with other VSO vols
plus as of 22nd Jan 2006 I have now been adopted by a small but stubborn kitten who resisted my attempts to reject him(/her?)
"Frog"
