turns out i have less rhythm then i thought. i had an african drumming lesson today in Amasaman (pronounced ah-ma-saw-ma) and really sucked. in my deffense the beats are a world away from the four four timing i'm used to banging out on the kawai baby grand in my livingroom.
earlier in the day we got turned away from a school because the headmaster didn't want us to teach the kids about using condoms. christianity here is ubiquitous. on the bright side, jesus gives these people hope when they feel screwed by the western world as they sell crap on the roadside for 12 hours a day before returning to their 10 by 10 foot mud hut that they share with 9 family members on a street from the set of a save the children ad. if there was no christianity here there would be no peace. i am possitive of that.
the negative is that some of the doctorines of chirstianity, like abstinence until marriage, just don't work. And yet people pretend that no one is having sex when in reality i have volunteer friends who work with 10 year olds who perform sexual favors for cash. when people pretend that there is no issue, no one, not an n.g.o., not a government, not even the church, can fix it.
maybe reality here is just too harsh to wake up to. i don't know.
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