when when people do things you know they want to share back with the community because a lot of people they don't have the finances or the time to do these kind of things and to go back to the motherland is special it truly is and people need to realize that  if you can do this you should do it because it shows you who we are and where we came from so it's a blessing and i was blessed to be able to do this and i was thankful that i could and i'm glad i can see ok so you have some  photos of the you want to share with us yeah with your photos actually have a lot but we're going to just go through a few and just kind of give you an overview of the kind of things that we saw this trip was really good because we had the opportunity to go to four different regions in woods is really pretty special it's not a trip for the faint of heart because you have to do a lot of walking and it's pretty hot but i recommend doing this because you see so much you get a chance to really see the countryside to see the good the bad and ugly you get actually get a chance to see a lot of stuff that you wouldn't see ordinarily  given a lot of glorification they will get right into  was actually him and so that was really very interesting because this tomb is a huge part actually and so his to of the main attraction there so we had a chance to go there and poor libations and and kind of talk about this particular king and while we are there we had the opportunity to think that there were kids there and my son who had the kids doing the powers so that was really nice and it was just it was just a real fruitful trip to see all the kids there and them being able to interact with us all the time i mean on both sides of the street if you drive through the through the countryside people sell everything you see you my see big aids gates for your  houses slate because slater's a big thing there they have a lot of slate and up and granite neck kind of stuff but everything you want you see on the street because they don't have a lot of shopping centers there they just start building they built a new one and in akra which we were in but this is basically what you see all the time people all the time everywhere this is another picture you see the clothes hanging and and the people in the people carrying the stuff on the heat that something that you see all the time and like the streets are made of like this red clay and you see when you drive through the streets you see people selling their wares because they don't have a social programs like they here have here so everybody is there to make the money that they came every day so i have a question i'm looking at these cars or y was one of things that was really interesting the first four days we were in accra we didn't see any white people no i mean in fact there was a bus load or what they call a tro tro which is a bus or a cab that has a lot of people in and it was a cab full of white people was all white people we didn't see him for four days none at all but you know you see people on the streets and stuff and  we we sponsored like to go to schools an orphanage and this particular day was like on a friday and the ladies there they were in written black because it was a morning day morning and everybody in the whole village dresses in written black soldiers the rhythm back some volatile something i don't know i don't think it is that because different villages had different were not as world together for as like the plumbing even in the really good hotels sometimes you have problems with the plumbing but this is one of the orphanages that we were sponsoring is called trinity as you can see is pretty good to great but in he said he wasn't really finished but this is on a tree can you imagine carve in that many but it also shows how talented we are we as a people have so much talent and it's just amazing this is this man car that he's in or i still have some more to go i couldn't see where you could put anything else but obviously he thought there was more to do and this is the guy and i can remember his name but this is the person that actually worked in napa and we were in the botanical gardens that day and he's one of the curious there so it was really very interesting to be able to to talk to him and we bought some jewelry and stuff from you know i see more than one car this was very very interesting to be able to see this going to a big difference that hundred year old tree is talking about and it's so big he even take the whole tree portuguese in the dutch who who did this in slaves and this this particular castle is when a courtyard right there and what he was telling us is that they would like the governors of the people over there the castle they would bring out the women and they would put them in to to this thing right here  called a washer which when they would they bring them into the courtyard and the govern would stand in a court up above them and pick up a woman that he would want and then he would dump them into this  s dungeon to clean them and then he could bring them up stairs to do whatever it was kind of intense when you went through these and this was a group of that went on particular  so this is pretty much who went on a trip and they were like all lawyers and it was pretty interesting to see a lot of people came from atlanta but there was like my son and myself and then there was a family here from seattle so it was his wife the gentleman of the wife and his brother and his cousin and his son so i mean there was quite a coast and you can see the fishermen early in the morning as we would get up and you would see the fishermen in the waters this is a gentleman if you  know this is the atlantic ocean which after we did they i mean the coast we did what we call a naming ceremony on this particular beach which is that a new africa and the water is just really warm and and you know we felt so free because you know most people you give in parties and stuff and we had a big party there and they they had the drums and all the stuff and nobody came tell you need t quiet down because it was yours and that's the thing about going there is that you really feel free you feel home so it was a it was a real good feel a view from one of the hotels we were at now does what i was talking about the good bad and ugly now you can see there's a guard rail now that the locals can i just can't into two hotels that we stay at every place we want to have guards and they had bob wired even in the most expensive hotels and stuff so it is still third world and you are reminded of it because everywhere we went because we were on a tour and we had people from guyana and across that knew the place in and so we always had people in the middle at the front in the back third world country so that you know that you have to be aware you know it's like the queue in mexico and places well you know the thing is is that they do welcome us you know so i don't want to get the wrong impression the guineans do welcome us there but they do still see us as a form of income because we come from america and they assumed there would just like white people we got lots of money and you do bring a certain amount of money come there to protest the pay in and bring your money so that you can lift up the village or the town or wherever your so they do look at us that way so when you go you do have to be careful you just going just go willy nilly because my son has it in the process of thinking of a buy and so mom some property there fact he just came back but he does know some people there that he's been talking to  o one of the things that they tell us is that we need to to come and find out what's really going on in in in africa because right now our money is like three point nine percent which means almost for one dollars four dollars or so for right now it's very good to go and buy land but one thing that you have to remember is that when you buy land there you've got to make sure that the land you buy is actually being given to you by the person that actually owns it because it is a corrupt place so you have to make sure that that  whoever you buy it from actually owns or yeah because it's not like here where the government is in charge of this they're the king and the chiefs are in charge of of land and stuff the last bass is called the last bass and this particular picture was on one of the walls there's a hole mural but this is once they go to the bass actually bring in people and that's what they used miles to get here and this is before they get too many calls where they go get on the ships so they take up to the last bass to clean them in only the strong survive to get to and so they would take fact you see it was it was funny but it's kind of funny because you were cds advertisement these billboards of churches and the minister would be at the bottom but would see a big white jesus at the top so that's still very prevalent there in africa in africa why jesus in africa why does in africa and that's how they they kind of control country huge billboards and that was going to impact while we was there like i said we don't see a whole lot of white people but on the way back there was a group that came to the hotel stephanie she got on her computer and she was writing letters and they were handing out flyers to to to the community and to the so they could get to the chief to tell them that these seeds once you plant them it kills your  and so what it does is that it kills or saw in the plants that you get you can't regenerate and so you have to keep coming back to them the body see you know and so the same game is being played and it's really kind of discouraging to even think about their bodies that's what's going on you know so yeah some things don't change you know and that's that's a scary scary thought  true but so yeah that was the last bass and we did go to think about we went to the last bath is that when you go into can we have a chance to actually go to the water and wash ourselves and you can see that the people have to work so hard and they have all this wealth there but we still have people coming like from china and other places still using the same kind of techniques they use hundreds of years ago to continue to take things from us and you know people still are under the influence so it's not a government policy that if you find a goal or if you're on your property you can you can benefit from it one week they actually took the gold and you know could could trade it but but the government came and set it down and told them even on her property she couldn't do that so they still are pretty much in control you know pretty much in control of a lot of stuff which is kind of disheartening but the one thing about moving to africa is that if you buy land because you're not a good name and you can only lease the land used to be able to leased land for ninety nine years now you can lease the land for only fifty years unless you buy directly from a chief or a king and if you buy directly from a chief working in you know you have a straight  shot of the land being near or if you marry again main then you also have access to to being able to to get the land without having to lease it but if you're not to have to lease to me and so there's a lot of questions about what you do and how you do stuff so you do have to do your work you know and are just you know go in and really figure out exactly what you need to do because with the anything you have to you do you have to do your homework now this picture right here is some of the ladies there's a there's a place