Jayme F

The UNHCR (The United Nations High Commission for Refugees) apparently doesn't think twice about its' rhetoric. This is at the Entrance to Budaburam Refugee Camp outside of Accra, Ghana.

"If you are not able standing, sit down!!!" This is from Burkina Faso. Please note that The White Man (pronounced "Why Maan") can't aim very well and The Black Man can, and is significantly (seriously- thats a baby arm) more well-endowed than the why maan. Ahhhahaha, yes. Its one of those "it's funny cause its true" things.

This was a man we met in Mali (One of the 10 poorest countries in the world) who was at a birthday party the village invited us to. Notice the torch on his head, you can tell Obruniis (White people, Foreigners. Literally: Those who swam across the sea.) come through here often.

This is "we"- me, Duncan, and Channing, riding through the Sahara desert in Mali when the trotro stopped because it was Mecca Time! Earlier that day we'd ridden through the cliffs in the back of this death trap:

We're so happy! It was petrifyingly unstable and bumpy and the roads were winding over the cliffs and we thought we weren't going to make it a few times.

Me and Chanchan in Mali by the Niger River, "We Will Defeat You HIV/AIDS" I really look like AIDS. kind of scary.

Seriuosly, there is so much sex at the refugee camp. Walk around at night, and you'll hear it. Think about it you've got 65,000 + people on 100 acres of land (that's about 90 Football fields) who are indirectly forced to stay in that area with little access to jobs which are poorly paid (teachers get around 10-15 usd/ month) and who aren't legally allowed to work outside the camp. People get bored... they have sex...

Just a scam. Visa's are not free.

"As you can see on the picture how an individual is affected by the HIV AIDS and also you can see how his friends are taking care of him. If you have AIDS it doesn't mean that you should be avoid. An if a person is affected by the virus you should show love to the affected person by encouraging, keeping company, and telling he she about Jesus.

Prevention: you can prevent yourself from getting the virus by 1) Using your condom during sexual intercourse 2) Avoid instrument that have been used by another person 3) Wait until you are matured enough 4) Your partner should be tested before marriage"

Ghana's 50th Birthday was insane. !Oprah! was there >: Actually the celebration was the shit, drumming and dancing. The best combination in the world.

This is the UNHCR dumpster outside of my favorite bar on the Camp: Intersection View. Everyone pees on it, i've peed behind it.

A lot of people think you can get HIV if you share a toilet with an affected person. Worse than the misconceptions about how you can contract HIV are the misconceptions about how you can cure it- Sex with a Virgin, Sex with a Child, Sex with _____, etc.

These I believe are pictures of events that the UNHCR has sponsored- immunizations, food handouts, etc. Most of the blue post boards are filled with pictures of missing people or unclaimed children.

They never came. The UNHCR decided the "atmosphere" on camp was "too violent" so they met with the Camp Manager in Accra and then wrote up a report. But things like this are just illusory, they know they wont come to camp (there would have been riots, they were right in that sense) but there is no "discussion" between the refugees and the unhcr. The UNHCR is pretty much petrified of the refugees, so they don't ever come into contact. blah

Boredom sets in at the guesthouse. Simon <3 Lamp. Jayme <3 Simon.

The two most peaceful, light hearted Muslims i've ever met... I don't think they even know about the "terrorist organization" the Brotherhood. ha

I don't know how to explain it but this captures the essence of camp so well.

"I LOVE CHRISTIANITY"

My Favorite- Look closely at the letters... what the FUCK?

U- Flexible self-masturbation?
S- He's going down on her, hellll yeah.
E- About to jizz on her face...
A- I know theres a name for this but I can't remember it. For such a homophobic society like Ghana's I think it's great that the two guys are kissing while they both penetrate the chick.
C- ? Guy eating out girl while he jizz's on another girls stomach?
O- ?
N- ? That's fuckin team work.
D- ? Pre-sex tantric work up?
O- ?
M- ? Acrobats?

I'm making shirts of this, if you want one let me know, they'll be less than 10usd I think.

In other news, I have Malaria AND Pneumonia, which is great for my mental/emotional/physical health. Not to mention, my grades. I had to go to the ER, and the doctors don't really know so they want me to go see a Tropical Disease Specialist, ahhhhahha. I never realized how truly crazy you go during malaria. And I stick mby my "Anything worth doing is worth getting hurt for" faint quote. Ghana/Burkina/Mali was definitely worth getting hurt/permanently ill.

This was written during the day, with a temperature varying between 99.5-101. I'm somewhat stable now, but tonight when the vomiting starts, and the fever goes up to 104 and I cant move... it feels like a horrible horrible trip, where I can't control my mind, and I don't know how to tell my body to move. I have crazy ass dreams that scare me when I wake up because I'm afraid they will come true or that they reflect something very wrong within my psyche, but its pretty much the drugs and parasites battling it out. A lot of my dreams seem to involve some representation of my life falling off the edges of of some object. I sometimes listen to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack to inspire my body to fight back! Anyway, tonight is the final, epic battle as it was my last day of treatment for the Malaria. Ahhaha. At night I totally sound like Gollum, too. Fuck Malaria, guys. If you go anywhere take your prophylaxis, sleep with a mosquito net no matter how hot it is, and wear insect repellent all the time. If a mosquito bites me here, and then bites someone else, and they haven't traveled out of the country they could die becasue they just think it's a flu. That's totally fucked. And a child dies of Malaria every 30 seconds, I don't like saying those A ___ dies of ___ every ____ second things but I guess I can't not say it in this case. Malaria is totally fucked, it kills 1 million children in Africa every year and when you don't have the money/access to health care you have to watch your children die. It was very common on the Camp, a huge health threat. The life expectancy on camp is 45 because of infectious diseases like this. I'm just rambling now, sorry if this is not exactly making sense but yeah. I have Malaria, I don't have to make sense.
Love you all,

Jayme