Faces from the territory. The woman in the top picture, the woman in the third picture and the two girls on the right side of the fourth picture are all deaf and all are studying the Bible! The three girls in the second picture are hearing and the sister I was with was covering their studies for an English sister.
My fearless pioneer partner!
At the cart. We have done the cart one time so far. We walked to our COBE’s house, picked up the cart, made up with a local sister and then walked across the road to a bus shed. I know of at least 2 locations in town where ASL does the cart - this bus shed and then near the market. We had a lovely morning. There were some boys cleaning and painting the house behind the bus shed so we spoke with one of them as he arrived for work. We then asked others as they passed by if they knew any deaf. Later in the morning, the boy we had spoken with earlier called out to a few passersby himself - hey! You know any them that can’t hear, can’t talk? They deaf? !!!! It was awesome.
Speaking of the market.... my fearless pioneer partner has also been to the market twice! As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, the market is where you buy produce and meat/fish. You can also buy clothes, spices, ice cream, and other things there but mainly it’s where you go for produce and meat....for this, read: things that normally in America would be kept nicely refrigerated and fly-free (!). Here is a link to a long video - I did not take it, nor have I listened to it - I just watched it with the sound off, just in case. https://youtu.be/iycNSyMTf3s. Thanks, Jerry for finding this video. It is how it looks.
So the first time Nate went to the market, another pioneer sister went along with him to show him the ropes. Most of the vendors don’t have prices listed. You just ask - how much for this, how much for that. If you like the price you buy it, if you don’t like the price then you don’t. There isn’t any haggling. Often times, they’ll have fruit or veg already set up in a bundle or a stack. So for example, you might see a stack of 3 oranges or a bundle of basil. You can for the most part, assume that these are 100GYD (50 cents). Other times, it is by weight, so 2 pounds of bananas might be 200GYD ($1). Last time, Nate went to market by himself and came home with: 1 pineapple, 1 pound of bananas, 5 passion fruit, 2 oranges, a bag of tomatoes, 1 papaya, a bundle of bok choy, 2 cashew pears, 1/4 of a pumpkin and 3 plantains and I think his total was 2400GYD ($12)?!
You dear reader have made it to the end of this post - bless your heart! Here are my favorite pictures so far - Yes Nate took them all. Yes I know, you would prefer if he took all the pictures from now on!
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