A few new pictures

So now that I have a new phone that takes pictures and video I thought that I would use it to take a few snap shots.

I tried it the first time when we had so much rain at the office that I thought that we were going to have to build an arc to get out of the office. I know that we are in the rainy season (I can tell by the amount of rain and the fact that I am wearing jeans because I am so cold) but I have never seen so much rain in my town. We had so much rain one day that the whole front of my office was completely flooded up to the front 2 steps, the gutters were over flowing and the roads were flooded. Needless to say, I stayed in the office until the rain stopped. I did not want to walk in the water because I did not know what was in it, I could only imagine. About 15 minutes after the rain slowed and then stopped some how the ground absorbed all the standing water and the only thing left was mud, or so I would like to think. I have a link to some pictures if you would like to see the flood.

I have also put a picture of what one of the more creative shoe sellers did in my market to get people to stop and look at his shoes. He dressed up a teddy bear and put shoes on it and then put a water sachet in front of it to make it look almost like a real "small boy". It was amazing the amount of people who were stopping and looking at his shoes and most were buying things. I would love to see more of this "out of the box" thinking here.

The last picture is of the little boy who lives across the street from me. His name is Yaw and he lives with his mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and his aunt. This is typical in Ghana. The little boy is so cute and he loves to come over and pet the dogs in my compound, he also likes to wander up to the main road. I have to bring him home about 2 days a week because he gets away from the house just to see the "big trucks" on the main road. I am always afraid that he is going to get hit by one of those trucks.

Hope you enjoy my pictures.