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A Day in the Life of a Builder
“Woke up to Sophie bouncing around next to my mat, after dressing in the same sweat ridden shorts as the day before I would stumble to breakfast- Milo begins kicking in. After a doxy session and sun cream applying we would troop to the area of drain excavation we were working on and find that by 9am the farmers had already managed to dig more than we would manage in 3 days, with the aid of apateshi. Taking in turns to dig we would make tennis player grunts and sweat pools into the dug trench.
I would start squeaking with delight when lunch arrived- BEANS!! After devouring a couple of bowls – don la oum kaka mama! I would nap until the trench called me back, then playtime with me new found 4 year old friends, after my jaw ached from all the laughing and squealing I would carry a couple back to their houses, parents look on questionably. Then I would wearily wander back to a refreshing river bucket shower next to a singing Welshman and a couple of spiders. A Star beer shandy and bond street cigarette await before dinner… ground nut soup with akblee, fried plantain and pineapple. I tended to wimp out on the bar trip as too tired so would crawl into my mosquito net and sheet by about 8 ready for tomorrow or a weekend of frolic and fun dancing and drumming.”
Jessica Watts, Madbuilder/artist
Liati Wote, Volta Region, Ghana, July 2003
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