Being a vegetarian in Guinea is a challenge. If you ask, do you have a plate of peas and fries?, they will say no. Do you have peas? Yes. Do you have fries? Yes. Ok, so I would like both of those. On a plate, hold the chicken. Ok thanks.
I was off work last Friday thanks to Tobaski, the slaughter of the lambs. I went with a bunch of friends to a fabulous beach two hours (on a map, but four and a half hours with traffic) away. It was AMAZINGLY GREAT. Unlike Conakry beaches where you could likely drown in trash (only half joking), the beach at Belle Air was clean (ish, at least in front of the hotel) and lovely. It felt rather colonialist.
I had the good fortune of stumbling across a small village that is right next to the hotel. They let me haul water and explained how they make charcoal. It is always a challenge to appreciate the high on the horse expat hotel in the face of a small village where the income is so incredibly low. I probably spent more in those three days at the beach then most of the people in the village make in 6 months, maybe a year (this is a completely wild guess, based in large part on the fact that they were making coal, which is incredibly labor intensive and doesn't provide a great profit, as I understand it).
Another day in Guinea, perspective doled out ladle over ladle.
I was off work last Friday thanks to Tobaski, the slaughter of the lambs. I went with a bunch of friends to a fabulous beach two hours (on a map, but four and a half hours with traffic) away. It was AMAZINGLY GREAT. Unlike Conakry beaches where you could likely drown in trash (only half joking), the beach at Belle Air was clean (ish, at least in front of the hotel) and lovely. It felt rather colonialist.
I had the good fortune of stumbling across a small village that is right next to the hotel. They let me haul water and explained how they make charcoal. It is always a challenge to appreciate the high on the horse expat hotel in the face of a small village where the income is so incredibly low. I probably spent more in those three days at the beach then most of the people in the village make in 6 months, maybe a year (this is a completely wild guess, based in large part on the fact that they were making coal, which is incredibly labor intensive and doesn't provide a great profit, as I understand it).
Another day in Guinea, perspective doled out ladle over ladle.