When Paul dropped Abigail and Bradley off at school he was told that they will need picking up at 12.00pm as a national holiday has been declared due to the World Cup coming to The Gambia and the president would be showing it off at the stadium later on today. There was no point in Paul going to the college as he only had a lecture this afternoon which would now be cancelled.
Paul called in at the VSO Office this morning he spoke to Nuha re work for me in The Gambia. On returning he told me Nuha gave him a contact of an ex volunteer as she may have work available, Henrietta is Dutch and works for Ballast Nedam she has lived here for ten years and is married with two young children to a Gambian. We went to her office which is just at the traffic lights and had a good chat to her unfortunately she has nothing at the moment but has asked for my CV and will keep in touch if any thing comes available.
We decided to look for some bamboo to try to hang the Batik’s so walked down Kariba Avenue in and out of the shops. Whilst we were looking we noticed a cooker for sale in one of the shops it had some paint missing off one of the corners, we were told it was second hand but it looked as if it hadn’t even been used so we agreed a good price. Unfortunately we couldn’t find anywhere which sold bamboo so we headed home Paul picking up Abi and Bradley whilst I called at the bakers for bread. Paul picked up the cooker in the car and connected it to the gas supply making sure everything was working okay which it was, however not as strong a flame as the stove top, hopefully we may save some gas.
After lunch Paul headed out to the stadium with camcorder in hand, we thought it best not to take the children in case of crowds so we headed to the beach instead to pick up my tie dyed skirt from Fatou leaving Awa finishing of the ironing. On arriving at the craft market Fatou wasn’t there however Adam was so he found my skirt which looks very good a deep navy purple with pink. He then picked up Bradley’s bucket and spade and accompanied us to the beach building sand castles for them. Shortly after Felix and Georgia arrived, oh Felix is now Uncle Felix as the kids have really taken to him. They had a couple of surf boards so they took Abi and Bradley in the sea in their pants as I hadn’t packed their costumes. They really enjoyed it I think we will have to look for some body board for them.
Paul called in at the VSO Office this morning he spoke to Nuha re work for me in The Gambia. On returning he told me Nuha gave him a contact of an ex volunteer as she may have work available, Henrietta is Dutch and works for Ballast Nedam she has lived here for ten years and is married with two young children to a Gambian. We went to her office which is just at the traffic lights and had a good chat to her unfortunately she has nothing at the moment but has asked for my CV and will keep in touch if any thing comes available.
We decided to look for some bamboo to try to hang the Batik’s so walked down Kariba Avenue in and out of the shops. Whilst we were looking we noticed a cooker for sale in one of the shops it had some paint missing off one of the corners, we were told it was second hand but it looked as if it hadn’t even been used so we agreed a good price. Unfortunately we couldn’t find anywhere which sold bamboo so we headed home Paul picking up Abi and Bradley whilst I called at the bakers for bread. Paul picked up the cooker in the car and connected it to the gas supply making sure everything was working okay which it was, however not as strong a flame as the stove top, hopefully we may save some gas.
After lunch Paul headed out to the stadium with camcorder in hand, we thought it best not to take the children in case of crowds so we headed to the beach instead to pick up my tie dyed skirt from Fatou leaving Awa finishing of the ironing. On arriving at the craft market Fatou wasn’t there however Adam was so he found my skirt which looks very good a deep navy purple with pink. He then picked up Bradley’s bucket and spade and accompanied us to the beach building sand castles for them. Shortly after Felix and Georgia arrived, oh Felix is now Uncle Felix as the kids have really taken to him. They had a couple of surf boards so they took Abi and Bradley in the sea in their pants as I hadn’t packed their costumes. They really enjoyed it I think we will have to look for some body board for them.
We set off for home on arriving I realised I had forgot to take my key and unfortunately Awa had already left for home. Luckily John was at home so I managed to phone Paul only to hear car horns and noise in the background Paul was explaining that the president was arriving and he couldn’t hear me. I quickly sent him a text, John made me a cup of tea then it started to rain so I was glad to be inside. Paul eventually turned up telling us he couldn’t get out until the president had done his lap of honour throwing biscuits out to the crowd as he went. Unfortunately he had missed seeing the cup but enjoyed watching the crowd, soldiers and police dancing and singing along to the music however later on he was complaining that he had burnt his bum sitting on the hot concrete.
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