Up early to find Faith and Mike already outside with
coffee. Faith is feeling much better and
wanted to go, so we loaded the truck and went to collect Jean from her
hotel. Off onto the road to Brikama
where we started to look for a hole punch as Mike had been unable to get one
yesterday. We tried many shops with no
luck, most people didn’t even know what it was.
The cloudy weather seems to be over now, and we had to cover arms on the sunny side of the truck to stop burning. We continued on to Soma where we found a long queue of trucks, but not
many cars and so we were able to cross to Farafenni quite quickly. We had more shopping to do in Farafenni; Mike
and Faith are staying with families for the next two weeks and wanted to
contribute food to the family budget. I
met Alagie, who has supplied cement to us in the past and he suggested that for
the elusive hole punch I borrowed one from the Post Office. Being Sunday, this was closed, but the
security man kindly lent me a hole punch on the promise of returning it
tomorrow. We got all required items and
went to a café for lunch, our usual café had been closed last week, but on
seeing us the proprietress sent a message with one of the local guys to tell us
that everything was back to normal and she expected us back tomorrow as ‘her
customers’ We finally set off for
Jamwelly, arriving around 5pm in the afternoon.
Faith and Mike went off to inspect their lodgings whilst we unloaded the
truck into one of the classrooms.
Unfortunately the suggested lodgings had no toilet facilities, the family wander into the bush when they need to go. Faith didn't fancy that idea and so it
was agreed that they stay in the school, sleeping in the office for the
week. We all set up camp for the night,
showered (bucket and ladle) and sat down to wait for dinner, and wait and wait, we had just about
given up when Channeh arrived with the promised chicken dinner, just after 9pm.
Dinner and then straight to bed.
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