Saturday 7 March 2015

4th March, 2015 Wednesday. Visit from an old friend

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At last the wind has dropped and the sand has stopped flying around.  We can clean the house and it may stay clean for longer than a few hours!!
Another trip to the bank this morning as we need timber for the pillars, nails and of course more cement.  Kebba and I sorted out the money and then Steve took him to Nemasu with Sait and Cham part of the building team.  Large bins for water at the school which we bought yesterday were delivered and then Steve went on to Naata with the rest of the cleaning materials which I could not source in the market.  He was hoping to conclude his meeting with Mr Jallow, but unfortunately he had been called to a meeting at his afternoon school.  Momodou was back and the toothache seems to have been cured with local medicine.
Meanwhile I was in the storeroom as we have been promised a truck today to take text books and reading books to region 6, Basse, which doesn’t often get supplies. I finished sorting the boxes and returned home.  In the middle of the afternoon we got a surprise visitor, Mr Touray, an old friend who was a teacher at Minte Kunda, then deputy head; then head at Nyofelleh school and now at Kampasa, a school way up country on the south bank.  It was nice to see an old friend and we promised supplies for his school which he will collect tomorrow with a friend with a truck!  They left and shortly after we got a call to say the truck for region 6 was on its way. Kebba and two other boys came to the storeroom leaving Steve at home. The boys helped me by taking the designated goods outside the store to wait in the early evening, we didn’t have long to wait.  It arrived as we were taking the items out of the storeroom.  Everything was loaded onto the large flatback truck, roped and off just before dark.  Back home for a welcome meal.

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