The highlight of this week was our invitation to celebrate the queen’s birthday at the commissioner’s house. We arrived at 6.30pm and signed into the visitor’s book and then made our way to the rear of the house. There were already a lot of guests there we shook hands with the commissioner and his wife and had our picture taken, we were then offered a drink. The other volunteers arrived followed by the VSO staff from the office. The local TV station was filming the event as it was to be shown on TV tomorrow evening. There were some important people there Gambian hierarchy all dressed up in their national costume. As before the food and drink was served by waiters who were constantly refreshing there platters with more canapés. The commissioner did his speech and then around 9 o’clock we left for home.
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