Paramaribo, Suriname – Fri. May 4, 2007

I don’t mean for there to be so much time between posts but things here have been busy and getting into the city with all this rain is rather hard at times. It rains just about every day here and floods the yard making it hard to get into other parts of the country as we’re actually on higher ground than most and other areas stay flooded for days at a time.

Lelydorp, Suriname – Video

I took this video in our back yard using the onboard webcam on my laptop. HEH So yeah it’s really crappy as far as quality goes but it gives you an idea of my back yard. Please note that this is only actually about 1/5 of the yard. The other part of it was too difficult to navigate with a laptop in hand so I cut it off and ran away from the mosquitos just after hitting the area where the growth gets thick

Paramaribo, Suriname – Photos

I’m posting a ton of photos today. I’d love to hear what you think All photos are able to be enlarged by clicking

Paramaribo, Suriname

Paramaribo, Suriname – Sat. April 29, 2007

Yesterday we walked through the rain for about an hour through flooded streets to pick up Zero (Zee), our new puppy. We got there and noticed his eye had a tick in it. The poor puppy had the worst case of fleas I had ever seen and two other ticks as well. I’ve never seen such neglect with pets before. His mother had at least 15 ticks that were the size of nickels and knowing how people don’t care for their pets the same here as they do in the US, I decided on taking him for sure instead of picking another one because I feared someone would be mean to him if he ended up being blind in one eye or even that someone would cause him to be blind by leaving it there or trying to pull it out themselves. Edward stabbed the poor dog in the eye with needle nose pliers trying to get it out, so I’ve decided against trying and instead taking him to the vet.

Paramaribo, Suriname – Day 12

We were awoken early in the morning by the neighbor boy Edward, whom I’m guessing was skipping school that day and using our house to hide out in. He offered to clean our house in exchange for letting him hang out all day and we agreed. We took off to get a newspaper to purchase a second hand motorbike.