Culture Shock!

Greetings from Accra, Ghana!! Warm today, low 30's,… having a little culture shock as we drove around and did a few errands today. Still trying to get used to the time as we all had a restless sleep for the first few hours, but when we did finally sleep, we woke up with a shock finding out it was 2 PM!!!! Panic! We jumped up and called our driver George.
As we drove to meet Claudia today, we saw a man without legs sitting on something like a skateboard trying to sell his goods. George, our driver, is a very pleasant and trusted man around here who has ONE wife and four children. :) We needed to get money exchanged so instead of going to the Forex, he took us to this park and yelled something to this guy on the street who met us just around the corner as we pulled off the road. He traded in some cash for Ghana Cedis – felt like a drug deal as everything is done pretty secretly. George says these private vendors give better rates.
Oh, back to Claudia. Terrie from Chilliwack is adopting Claudia who is Liberian but lived at the Buduburam Camp. She is in a foster care type home and one of the volunteers there is from Halifax! Had a nice little chat. We met Claudia with Marsha 3 years ago and that's how long the adoption has been in progress. Please pray for this adoption : Canadian Immigration declined her Canadian visa and now has gone to appeal, date set in March.
We saw this cutest little baby girl in her mother's lapa at a roadside vendor.
After an hour at the airport tonight, our lost luggage still isn't with us. More patience to be learned and today we are thankful for the clothes on our backs and the food in our stomachs!!! That is more than what 80% of this world's population has.

We actually went to the pool this afternoon, just for 2 hours as we needed to relax a bit and didn't have an agenda today. The water was great! We picked up some eggs and jam to go with our bread, we just had dry bread for breakfast - it's amazing how we can make do... trying not to bear the burdens of Africa on our shoulders but it's so hard...
That's it for today. Tomorrow we leave early for the camp with 200 lbs of clothes, shoes, and Bibles.
Thank you for your prayers.
Love, Les Jackie Kyle & Kelvin



Here is a picture of us with our driver, George, putting some minutes on our cell phone:

















Jackie with Claudia: