Saturday 7 March 2015

28th February, 2015. Saturday. Resting





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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