My kids help out with sifting lunch

My friend Oumie is the Middle School secretary

Kumba and I sport new outfits

All dirty from the kitchen hut soot (see pictures below)

Re-roofing the kitchen hut

Pulling down the old grass thatch

Immunization day at the Karantaba Clinic

Keeping track of immunizations

Goofing off

Great motto on a boat!

Pulling the rope ferry in Bansang

Sidewalk fun

Art days in Sainabou's backyard

Baking the dried bowls in cow dung...

... is a delicate art.

Setting fire to a pile of pottery

Jake and my kids

Me and my little 'crazy', Hunta

Jake and Amy, on the bike in to Bansang from Karantaba

That's one way to get a bike across the river!

Pulling the rope ferry

The older 'kids' in my compound

Sulayman and Yaaleh

Ramatoulay's graduation from nursing school

Silly decoration at the PC hostel in the capitol

Krissy, Jessamy, and I

Eric, me, and Krissy

Krissy and Matt

Sign in Georgetown

Sara(h)2

My henna artwork

A visit to the Mungo Park memorial

Lolly, Haddy Sainy, and Adama

In the classroom (Grade 1)

Grade 1 with books donated by dad's friend Greg

Our playground

The thing I loved best about the swingsets that we built...

...wasn't even all the use it got at school: it was the million makeshift swinsets that it inspired around the village!

Eric and I, in search of monkeys

Collecting Taba fruits

Whitewashing my host mother's house

Out of order a bit... back to the roofing job!