Auteursarchief: Bonnie Vooijs

MJ’s Beauty School

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 Still no new building pictures to share, so I’ll use some blog space to show a great person and initiative I’ve come across: MJ and her Beauty School in Brikama. MJ, Mariama, is a young Gambian woman who started this school to teach girls to be a professional beautician and/or hairdresser. While learning the profession itself, they also get courses in assertiviness and how to do business. And, because the girls are still learning, they need costumers in the salon next to the school. I love to go there,  they’ll do their very best and you’ll get a lot of attention!

Tapha Artist

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This is Tapha. He’s a pretty well known singer-songwriter in the Gambia. Tapha has a voice that can make you cry. Honestly, when he sings, you’ll really feel it. But like many talented people from the Gambia are experiencing, it’s not always easy to get the attention their talents deserve. So, I decided to make a modest contribution by taking his pictures and advertising for him on the blog. I consider myself lucky to have him as a friend, because whenever I miss the Gambia, Tapha sings for me on the phone. Click here for my favorite song Adunya and please give him some clicks on all the other songs he and his fans uploaded on Youtube on Tapha’s Channel.

Unwanted visitors

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img_7833It’s stopped raining, so building can continue. I hear the grass grew very high this year, so we’re going to have to clear the land around the house first. Snakes and frogs love to live in it, but this is the last season I’m going to let them. And that’s not a threat, it’s a promise…

Walls Coming up

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Little by little the walls are coming up. The blocks are made in the Gambia, by hand, and usually on the spot. Like when the kitchen was built with mud blocks: click here. These were already made somewhere else, hence the truck and the workmen, who had to drive through mud and deep puddles of water to bring them. A few weeks after these pictures were made, the heavy raining really started, so we had to stop building for a while. The raining season in the Gambia is roughly from May- October, so we were pretty lucky the heavy rain only started this late (July/August). Some more building logic: building material like cement and sand gets more and more expensive before this season.