21.2.14 Friday. A dog for the school

We woke early as usual and packed everything into the truck before the pupils arrived for their morning assembly.  The puppy was still frightened, but had eaten and slept and was a little more friendly this morning.  I picked her up and stood with her in front of the school assembly whilst Channeh explained that some very bad boys had been injuring the puppy and that the charity were now giving the puppy to the school to look after.  She explained that they were to feed it and give it water and under no circumstances to harm it in any way.  The pupils were then asked to decide in their classes what to call it and a decision would be taken on the most popular name.  We later had a phone call to say they had decided on Tiger, I must say that the tiny brown and white spotted dog looks nothing like a tiger and spends most of her time hiding in her box at the moment.  Hopefully she will settle down and prove to be a good guard dog for the school.  We left Jamwelly and went into Kaur where we stopped at the corrugate café for breakfast and then went onto the school to collect Kebba and the carpenter to take them to Farafenni with us for the building materials..  We arrived at Farafenni and began to look for the timber we required for the roof of the library.  10 lengths of 3x2 are required, the first shop had only 3 lengths, the next place had none, we found another 2 lengths and the corrugate before we decided that we had wasted enough of the day and gave funds to Kebba to complete the search and transport the items himself and the carpenter back to Kaur, a distance of about 30 miles. We set off for the ferry where we were ‘helped’ to the front of the queue and crossed very quickly to Soma and the road home.  We picked up a mixture of 7 police and soldiers for a lift on the way and they all travelled on the back down to the kombos, which made our progress through the check points much easier.  We stopped at Kalagie for a refreshing drink at the bird camp before reaching back home at around 4.30pm to be greeted by Fiona.  As usual we and the truck were covered in dust from the journey and so Steve and I showered whilst Malik washed the truck and then Fiona came with Steve and I to a new bar on our main road for dinner and a welcome beer!