Friday the 13th at the "Busy Internet Cafe" in Accra. Thank goodness.....speed and good equipment. Yahoo messenger on Karen and Jesse online.
Things are good-Chupoo arrived Wednesday evening and she has now recovered from jet lag. We are hooking up with Andrea and Yaw tonight. Golden Tulip for dinner and "Next Door" night club for dancing.
Tomorrow is the ride to Cape Coast. We decided to take the car and driver. Mafo is such a great guy and he will keep us safe and happy along the way. A lot of my work will be in Cape Coast as it is where Vivien will make the duvet covers for me. I still have to design them. I know what fabrics will go together just have to decide on their configuration. I am excited and pray that me and my sister will have good communications and work well.
The book project at the refugee camp did not work out for us. We had the first meeting and it went well, lots of awesome ideas and plans. I made the mistake of serving beer and they all got drunk..........not good!
This was last Saturday afternoon. Then we had the first official workshop on Monday. We did well, made a story board and were well on our way to a great book for children on the subject of reconciliation.
Tuesday morning only one person came in the car when it arrived. It was the project coordinator. I thought uh oh! He said the artists wanted me to pay them 300 bucks or they were not coming back. They say they have been burned by Americans and Europeans who have used their art and not paid them. So they wanted to be paid up front. They had hungry families etc.
I understand their needs --the camp is rough and the director Fancis said that everyone there lives day to day. So not having planned to pay the artists to come to these free workshops that were to create a book by-for and about them and their comminty, I had to let it go. This is so disappointing to me. Each artist was fully aware of the goals and parameters of the project b4 it began and they also asked me MULTIPLE questions about money at each meeting that we had.
BTW--We have also decided to come home direct instead of stopping in Amsterdam.
time running out
love to all
Things are good-Chupoo arrived Wednesday evening and she has now recovered from jet lag. We are hooking up with Andrea and Yaw tonight. Golden Tulip for dinner and "Next Door" night club for dancing.
Tomorrow is the ride to Cape Coast. We decided to take the car and driver. Mafo is such a great guy and he will keep us safe and happy along the way. A lot of my work will be in Cape Coast as it is where Vivien will make the duvet covers for me. I still have to design them. I know what fabrics will go together just have to decide on their configuration. I am excited and pray that me and my sister will have good communications and work well.
The book project at the refugee camp did not work out for us. We had the first meeting and it went well, lots of awesome ideas and plans. I made the mistake of serving beer and they all got drunk..........not good!
This was last Saturday afternoon. Then we had the first official workshop on Monday. We did well, made a story board and were well on our way to a great book for children on the subject of reconciliation.
Tuesday morning only one person came in the car when it arrived. It was the project coordinator. I thought uh oh! He said the artists wanted me to pay them 300 bucks or they were not coming back. They say they have been burned by Americans and Europeans who have used their art and not paid them. So they wanted to be paid up front. They had hungry families etc.
I understand their needs --the camp is rough and the director Fancis said that everyone there lives day to day. So not having planned to pay the artists to come to these free workshops that were to create a book by-for and about them and their comminty, I had to let it go. This is so disappointing to me. Each artist was fully aware of the goals and parameters of the project b4 it began and they also asked me MULTIPLE questions about money at each meeting that we had.
BTW--We have also decided to come home direct instead of stopping in Amsterdam.
time running out
love to all
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