CABALKAS' IN THE CONGO

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Another Great Shot of Typical Congolese scene


Here is another picture of a very typical street side vendor. This woman is selling her fruits and vegetables to whoever....if it were a Congolese person that approached her to buy the food they would make a deal.....cheap for them. If Grace and I approached her she would totally jack the price up. The apples to Congolese would cost at the most 200 Francs ($.30) for 6 of them. For Grace and I they would try to charge us over 2000 Francs ($4.00 almost). Then we'd have to haggle them down and what a hassle that is...not being able to speak French or Lingala....tho' Grace is getting way good at the Lingala language (she'd never tell you that though). The big bags behind her to her right might be bags of charcoal or greens which they make as a staple called Pondu.

2 Comments:

At 3:55 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

fruit is overrated anyway!! who needs it. :)

I'd love to hear Grace speaking a little Lingala. I'm sure she does well.

Have a great week you guys.
tg

 
At 8:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm surprised that she let you take her picture. The congolese don't like to have their picture taken!!
(ks)

 

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