Clothing

Despite all of the dirt and poverty out here in Africa, the people always seem to be wearing very nice, bright, clean clothes. For some reason the colours look so gorgeous against their dark, smooth skin. Every colour looks great. All of the women are in dresses or in two piece outfits with a matching kerchief on their heads and a baby wrapped on their back, also with matching fabric. While out in the villages and small towns we see an awful lot of bare breasts just hanging out...and we're talking HANGING! We're talking National Geographic at it's best kind of boobs here. Poor Savannah has been so traumatized that she has literally taken to wearing TWO bras at the same time to prevent any such thing from happening to her. Oh, and she says she is thinking of investing in a third! Hhahaha.
Here in this city, Freetown, we are happy that all of the women have been fully dressed and our men don't have to keep diverting their eyes since they've become very distraught themselves.
The men are dressed in normal western clothes. T-shirts, jeans, suit pants, Polo shirts etc. All of the kids seem to be dressed in American T-shirts with common Logos. It looks like they're all wearing the hand-me-downs from American kids.
It's soo hot and muggy here and there's nothing you can do to cool off except take our clothes off and run around...but THAT'S not happening!
The beach here is beauitful and the water is a perfect tempurature. The sand is the softest I've ever felt and everything is surprisingly clean. We'll spend the day at the beach tomorrow then go find some chimps to look at.
Wishing you all well. Feel free to join us anytime!
Maggie