People, including children desperately try to sell sandals, handbags, electric shavers, lamps, cigarettes, hair bands, underwear, plastic razors, packages of toilet paper, office furniture. Large faded, yet colorful umbrellas shade some vendors in the hot afternoon sun. Buildings stand several stories high with store-fronts on the ground level and apartments or offices above. A youth with pleading eyes raises his shirt to expose a tumorous growth on his stomach. Five youths pick through a dumpster.
Men shine shoes.
The Atlantic ocean flows peacefully. Day Two of a View of Angola Journal entries by Geneviev Scheldorf, Cindy's 78 year old mother, who, like her daughter, is also engaged in immigrant concerns and works closely with church youths, was the most senior participant in the Travel Study Seminar. We see many people walking. There are wide gutters on each side of the road, and intervals of garbage dumpsters left with heaping mounds of garbage surrounding them. Pigs rival with humans in the waste in the search of food.