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DEEP IN<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The fecal sludge to biodiesel project continues plodding along. Two brave men remove rumen from digester #1 at the plant and a gaggle of big brains flew down from the states for a series of Advisory Meeting. Details at: FS2BD May, 2013<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n EASY COME, EASY GO<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Amelia hatched six eggs and Jeremy loaded them in a box bound for their new home. More at: Hatch and Go Chicks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n TRADITIONAL GHANAIAN FABRIC<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Morgan and Nate stayed at Casa Kumasi for a couple of nights on their way to becoming doctors. They happily joined Camille and Kat on a tour of a village where they weave traditional Ghanaian cloth. Check out: Adanwomase Kente Village<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ON THE SPOT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Naturally, we put our guests on the spot and asked them to pose with our plastic zebra, mini-Spot.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n BOUNTY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Jeremy’s garden has responded well to the rainy season, brimming over with eggplant, lime basil, lettuce, beets, chard, collards, holy basil, moringa and sweet corn.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n TALK ABOUT NOT BLENDING IN<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n This colorful grasshopper stands out like a sore thumb on the pepper plants. Or does he?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n GOOD LOOKING OBRUNIS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We’re full of ourselves these days and it shows in our fashionable taste in clothing. Having clothes made here is as easy as falling off a truck. We are all wearing clothes we had tailor-made for ourselves. Bob in his blue shirt, Camille in her wrap-around slacks, Kat in kente and Nauzley in her blue batik dress.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n HOME IMPROVEMENTS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With interns headed our way and the prospect of putting them up in a dreary hostel across town didn’t seem appropriate, Bob jumped into action and had the downstairs painted and plumbed into short-term housing. And then he bought us a lawn mower. See the ‘before’ photos and more on: Home Improvements<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n NEW HOUSEMATES AND FRIENDS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Allison joins Casa Kumasi from South Carolina and Daniel from Berkeley. Akwaaba! Sala from Seattle stopped by to say hello after Friday morning coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n OCTAGONAL RELAXATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Round rooms have a calming affect. Cookie makes good use of the love seat in the octagonal office and, on another day joins Allison, Jeremy and Nauzley on the octagonal deck above it.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CHOPPING PARTY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Itey Nite, Movie Nite! It was a busy downstairs kitchen before dinner as Allison, Nauzley, Camille and Daniel made spaghetti sauce and salad. Then we all headed into the octagonal office where Bob had set up a projector to show the movie “Lincoln” on the wall. Good times!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PLAYING WITH FOOD<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bob opens cans of tomatoes for spaghetti sauce using a primitive opener. Jeremy prepares lime basil for drying.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n JUSTIN’S LAST DAYS AT CASA KUMASI<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Grilling fish in foil on the charcoal grills for movie night.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PLANT TOUR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Elvira invited us to tour her husband, Italo’s parquet floor and furniture factory. Read more at: Modern Woodworking Technology<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs a culture, we\u2019ve become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.\u201d – Michael Mudd, V.P. of Kraft Foods<\/span><\/p>\n “It takes a nationalistic pride to give one the confidence to fight a foreign enemy. And it takes a healthy skepticism of one’s own government to protect that government from it’s own corruption. So while the war vets have bravely fought for our freedoms and the hippies have preserved those freedoms by exercising them, I have stood back and watched history unfold in this complicated super power of which I reside, and I ask myself, “Is there really that much of a difference between the hippy and the soldier?” – Michael Illo<\/span><\/p>\n “Being wrong and disillusioned seems an inevitable consequence of any serious African journey.” – Paul Theroux from The Last Train to Zona Verde<\/span><\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Search the site for glorious moments from the past, using this handy Search Engine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n We blog, too! 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