Friday 2 October 2009

First Day at Brikama College

We were up early as it was Paul’s first day at the college l took the children off to school with a few tears and Paul left for college. Abigail had lost a bottom tooth this morning we thought it would have been her top tooth as it has been loose for some time. I spent the morning ironing and downloading photos onto the computer and renaming them. I was pleased that on picking Bradley up there were no tears and he was quite happy, he had been playing with a little boy called Patrick who had brought in some spidermen pencils. When we arrived home Paul was just pulling up in the car apparently the meeting which had been planned had been changed to Tuesday morning.

On his way home Paul had stopped to give some people a lift as their gelleh gelleh had broken down, he ended up with three men and a woman squashed in the back seat and a woman with a young baby in the front. He told the woman she needed to put on her seat belt as you can get a fine if not wearing it, so he tried discreetly to help her, only to find as they set off she wiped out her boob and started to feed her baby in true African style.

When Abigail arrived home she was excited that another bottom tooth had come out whilst eating her apple so the tooth fairy is going to be busy tonight. We went to the bank to withdraw some money and check that the money we had transferred from England had arrived which it had. Its ironic that on leaving England we checked with all the banks to see if they had connections in The Gambia which non of them did, however the GT Bank which we have chosen is all so linked to the HSBC bank.

Paul went off with Abigail to give the guy who is doing our Batik some money for materials, whilst I and Bradley went to buy some bread. We walked past the American Embassy choosing the pavement closest to the gates rather than waking right next to the busy road, we were suddenly stopped by a security guard saying we couldn’t walk there, I had quite a few choice words to say ridiculous being one of them. Even Paul and Max were moved on when they had stopped to talk on the opposite side of the road from the embassy.

Arriving back home at 5.00pm I set about making Chicken Yassa for dinner, we then had a couple of games of Uno as Abigail and Bradley are really starting to enjoy the game. We put them to bed not forgetting Abigail’s two teeth wrapped up in some toilet paper ready for the tooth fairy.

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