{"id":1697,"date":"2019-01-31T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2024-09-24T00:20:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T00:20:56","slug":"a-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2019\/01\/31\/a-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"A Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n
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Mercy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We arrived at Eva and Nathaniel\u2019s before 7:00am.\u00a0\u00a0Richmond wanted to drop by and record one more Bible story before school started.\u00a0\u00a0Mercy also stepped up to the microphone and carefully told her remaining Bible story before heading off to classes.\u00a0\u00a0The rest of the morning we wrapped up loose ends, planned for future work, and enjoyed conversation with Eva and Nathaniel.\u00a0\u00a0After a few lapel microphone tests with the handheld recorder, Enoch and Christian were ready to record the community health tracks on a later trip. Unfortunately, we could not arrange for a medical worker to provide Bimoba health information during our short stay in Bunkpurugu \u2013 Christian and Enoch will have to follow-up and record information on malaria, typhoid, diarrhea, cholera, AIDs, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before leaving, we posed for some pictures with Eva and Nathan and dropped by the tailor\u2019s shop.\u00a0\u00a0Daniel\u2019s workshop is a small round adobe hut with a thatched roof.\u00a0\u00a0Bare-chested and with a yellow tape measure draped over his shoulder, Daniel waved me inside.\u00a0\u00a0Yesterday, I had dropped off two batik fabrics we had purchased last October.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Holding the tape measure between my shoulders and then from neck to waist, the experienced tailor had sized me up yesterday\u2026 no chest measurement, no arm length, just a quick height and width check.\u00a0\u00a0I wondered if he had a mental database of body types. Maybe I was filed under \u201cgoofy thin nerd..\u00a0\u00a0The two measurements would just provide an index to look me up.\u00a0\u00a0Daniel proudly showed me his original design. For less than $4.50, Daniel had sewn me a shirt.\u00a0\u00a0Beth had a tiered skirt made for $2.00.\u00a0\u00a0Folding them up neatly he pushed the clothes into a plastic bag and shook my hand.\u00a0\u00a0Still smiling, we waved back towards his hut as we drove off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I drove the rugged trail from Bunkpurugu to Tamale.\u00a0\u00a0It was an exciting and exhausting seven-hour journey.\u00a0\u00a0Really more like a motocross trail, we navigated from small village to small village as we listened to music and discussed Ghanian and American culture.\u00a0\u00a0There are no road signs providing direction out in the bush. Maybe the idea is that if you need to ask directions, you should not be driving.\u00a0\u00a0My OpenStreetMaps app was remarkably helpful, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another puncture…Teamwork!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll have to explain driving some more at some point… but right now, I need to sleep…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We arrived at Eva and Nathaniel\u2019s before 7:00am.\u00a0\u00a0Richmond wanted to drop by and record one more Bible story before school started.\u00a0\u00a0Mercy also stepped up to the microphone and carefully told her remaining Bible story before heading off to classes.\u00a0\u00a0The rest of the morning we wrapped up loose ends, planned for future work, and enjoyed conversation … Continue reading A Safari<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}