remembering the wall

in 1969 we were in West Berlin and wanted to go to East Berlin, just to do it. We entered through Check Point Charlie, had to convert some money to East Berlin coinage, I don't remember what it was called, walked through a double S shaped walkway(built that way so no one would drive straight through), once through to the East noticed the cut glass on top of the wall, an armed guard at the end of every street that we passed, tried to get food in a restaurant but was not served, bought post cards but no stamps were available, saw the tops of buildings blown off and folks  still living in the bottom two intact floors, I just remember it being a very grey atmosphere with the occasional curtain of colour fluttering in the breeze, When back in the West went into the museum at Check Point Charlie to see pics and actual cars that made it through this Check Point when it was a straight run, This wall is down but I am remembering another wall that exists today, the one the Israelis built around the Palestinians, solid metal, about 15 feet high and ?? how deep in the ground, very few gates but told that families separated by the wall, have to walk miles to a gates to visit relatives just on the other side, armed guards at the gates just like at Check Point Charlie, I guess somethings never change. Disagreements, power struggles, ideological differences, entitlement ideas .. to be human .....

Wall in Berlin

25 years ago is when the wall came down, so much has changed since then, my friend Deirdre commented as she was dying that New Year's Eve that she never thought she would leave this world with her children knowing that the wall came down, many things happen it seems that one cannot imagine.

the smell of rain

I really like the smell when it is raining and it was pouring tonight.
I printed out pics and descriptions of embroidery stitches today, going to make a binder and put them in plastic sleeves for the women at the Skill centre when we start to embroider, they will have a reference as I am sure there are times when I am talking they can not cut through my accent and understand what the heck I am saying. An angel in Canada sent embroidery floss which should be here next week so I am told..thanks Wendy. cant wait...

just a slow day

temp 92f, fan whirling the breeze, researching societal change: barriers and encouragements, very interesting to say the least. I guess my sociological hat is coming out.
yesterday I called Adu, cabbie that Gifty uses, waiting and then saw a hand wave from the driver, got in the cab, drive off and realized wrong driver, what to do... kept on ... stopping at Barclays Bank ATM and then home, then phoned to apologize to Gifty for calling Adu and then not being there    ooopsy

tv is working again

I thought it was the tv and thought I might need to buy another, not so, the connector from the dish wire to the box fell off this am so I went to the stall that sells the dishes and asked is there a repair person,,  Charles arrived later, reattached the connector, fiddled with the dish so I now get 45 channels and he showed me how to turn the radio on  WOW I tend to watch a channel out of Berlin which has some very interesting docs, I guess I will need to look around at others now I have them.
A successful resolution
Bought a newspaper today, looking at the ads and the items to get a feel for how things work here.

watch band is dying

I meant to get a new watch band in the summer but I didn't, now the perspiration is causing it to have big cracks SO duck tape to the rescue... nothing it too good for my watch so I have a Hello Kitty duck tape watch band that probably will last until I need to replace the tape or get a new band,one more use for Duck Tape

off to St. Peter's in Berekum

youth group

Moi

Evangelist on left and warden on right with servers and crucifer

cute kids

Mother Ben Smith and I after service

St. Peters having a Harvest (fundraiser) for the school. It was quite successful. Fr. Josiah showed some progress pictures of the school. It is coming along. Since the service finished at 230pm from 9am we decided that I will come out when the wall blocks are in at the end of this month to get pics.
Have pics of service though.

looking down from altar