enfante

enfante
Originally uploaded by jlovegren.

it is because of this child that i have a smaller selection of photos to post. she was so fascinated by the camera that she made me take her picture seven times and she did the same for me and various pieces of furniture in the house. in english the card suits are (black-spade, cassava-club, square-diamond, red-heart), in french, respectively macabo noir, trefle, faux carre, macabo rouge. the child cheated at cards but i finally beat her one time by cheating as well. we will play again when i return in late august. madame served me a stew with yam fufu that had a meat that smelled like pork and had the consistency of dried beef. 'that is bushmeat, we get it from the forest' lewoh is surrounded by hills and clouds, and the kids all want to get rich quick by farming cacao up in the hills. there is an old farmer we call englishman, since he was schooled in colonial days takes pride in talking in pidgin rather than nweh amongst friends. the pidgin here is based, in addition to english and indigenous languages, on french and italian. they have the gallicism "equally" meaning also, and the loan word from italian parola, taken to mean something that someone has said. englishman drinks gin as a proper englishman and gives away kola nuts and discusses with the other old men the great riches coming from a bucket of a certain breed.