After the long day yesterday we were tired this morning and
so decided to spend the day at home. The
whole day yesterday was interesting and informative. Why were we invited? Who knows, apart from the policeman who
showed us where to park and where to enter, nobody spoke to us all day, we were
shown to our seats and spent the afternoon enjoying the spectacle. First thing this morning I went to the bank
with Kebba to get the money to pay the builders and buy more cement. The buildings here in Gambia
are 90% cement, the blocks are made from cement, the mortar between them is
cement, the space between the corrugate roofing and the walls is filled with
cement. The Gambians say ‘cement eats
money’ and they are right. The
foundations are being dug today and the mango tree which is in the middle of
the new classroom space is being removed and the roots dug out. More cement needed to make the foundations
with the gravel which is being delivered this morning. Kebba and I sorted the money sat in the
banking hall, and then he set off for Nemasu on his bicycle. I went and caught one of the local ‘Gelly’
buses back home, the bus seemed to be full, but the conductor got out and hung
on the outside for the couple of miles to my ‘stop’.
We spent the rest of the day in the garden, Steve is still
nuturing his strawberries and as we are not going to be here long enough to
grow any vegetables for us to eat we are planting maize for Kebba to eat in the
rainy season.
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