Friday, 31 August 2007

So let me tell you a bit about the compound and the other teachers living there. I keep forgetting that there isn’t a default level of psychic communication between us, and hence me knowing the background information doesn’t actually mean all of you automatically do. I’ll pace the compound out later, but for now let me just say it’s pretty big. It’s surrounded by a huge concrete fence with barbed wire strung along the top at the front, and shards of glass cemented in around the sides and back. It would be intimidating… except that’s the way all the houses are here. There’s almost two completely separate levels of habitation; the huge houses that belong to those with money – think prison fences, German Shepherd type dogs, night guards – and the shacks and makeshift places everywhere else. It’s frightening really, that a lot of these places look like cubby houses thrown together with bits of wood and iron roofing. And we're living in houses big enough for...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow, i had no idea there was such a difference in living standards there, the city looked co civilised in your previous photo. Please take some pictures!