Photos

We visited Joseph's family again today to give them some photos and I took some pictures of our adventure of getting to the house. Fortunately, it hasn't rained much in the last two days so it was mostly just muddy - previously it was flooded and we had to walk through the water.

These are the houses we walked through over paths to get to Joseph's house. They are baking these clay log things which they sell - that's why there is so much smoke.

Here are some of the clay logs. People actually eat clay - they consider it a food item!

A little girl in her home as we walked by.

This is Joseph's house in the forefront. Today it was just really muddy getting to the house - last week we walked through water.

We are walking away from the house now. In front of me is Joseph's oma (grandma) who raised him. You can see more of the clay logs.

These houses make me think about how little we actually need to live (of course, they don't have winter). Not that they should live like this but they do and they survive. It puts my own possessions into perspective.
This is the view from our car as we are backing up to leave. As I've said before, we are like monkeys in the zoo and whereever we go, people gather around us and stare. You can see the small crowd that gathered to look at us. Rather than just let them stare at us, I usually get out of the car and walk through the crowd and shake their hands (they do that here with everyone, even tiny children) and ask their names and take photos. It's my 15 minutes of fame!

This last photo is just for fun - some schoolboys who wanted me to take their picture. Liberian children are some of the cutest kids ever!

Peace,

Michele