Thursday 23 January 2014

15.1.14 Wednesday. It takes a woman!!!



It’s always a sad day when good friends leave us and this year now they are retired, Ruth and John had managed 3 and a half weeks with us in the sunshine.  Sue and Graham came around to say goodbye also as they are leaving on Friday and we are travelling tomorrow.  Bags packed we set off for the airport in good time and as we all hate goodbyes we unloaded the luggage and then left them to wait for the flight whilst we went off to buy the rest of the cooking pots.  We managed to get them from the roadside on Kombo Sillah drive and paid less than the market, we then went along to Sukuta to buy the eating bowls and washing up bowls for both Jamwelly and Loumen to enable them to start the school feeding programme.  We were on our way back when Ousman rang to say the education truck would be with us in an hour!  We had been waiting for the director of Region 5 for transport for 5 weeks, the Lady director for Region 6 had a truck for us from the same department in 2 working days!  Women get the job done here!  We rushed back and met up with Jim, Kebba and some other boys to load the 100+ boxes onto the education truck for region 6.  That has left a hole in the storeroom, enabling us to move around more and see what is left.  Mell’s back is still bad and so we just walked slowly round the corner to Neil’s bar for a late lunch, rather than have her bouncing around in the truck.  We then went home and got everything ready for our trip up country tomorrow where we are starting the building of the wall at Kumbija. Jim is going to help but unfortunately Mell is having to stay behind and she is not happy about it as she was looking forward to the trip.

No comments:

Post a Comment