my ipod, Lazarus... from silence to sound
"In the aftermath of an exuberant craft time clean-up by a group of deaf kids being ministered to by some lovely visitors from France my ipod drowned on the kitchen counter, a victim of a mini flash-flood cascading down the kitchen cabinets from the guest house bathroom directly above. The soapy water tinged with "washable" green paint murdered my poor ipod. I'm left with an empty husk of technology, my music silenced and still." This was my facebook status last night. As mourned the loss of my music I was struck by the irony of my musical silence being inadvertently brought on by a group of deaf kids. They have never heard music, any kind of music, and in thinking along those lines I felt overwhelmed by sadness, not at my loss, but by theirs. The team from France is here to work with the one and only deaf school in all of Gabon. The kids attending this school represent a mere fraction of the deaf population here in Gabon. Due to the rolling power cuts h