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Another weekend, another adventure

This Saturday was so tiring that I really could do with last week’s bank holiday to be repeated, although I did have a huge rest on Sunday which was much needed.

On Friday evening we had our second Krio lesson- lots of grammar and background, which means it’s all v interesting but is also hard work and requires a lot of concentration after a week of work, especially since it lasted for 2hours- I think in the future we might just have 1 hour on Fridays.

We had a very early evening to bed on Friday, but this was partially because we were going to get up unreasonably early for Saturday morning in order to get to the pick up point (Congo Cross for those who know it) for a hike we were going on.

Anyway, Saturday was great fun but a long hike- there are some photos from it below- involving going a very long way up a fairly steep hill and then another lesser hill and then another very steep hill. However, we did get some good views of the city and were also able to enjoy a relaxed lunch while some of the guys (both expats and local since we went on the hike with a group of local scouts) with us played football with locals living at the top of the first hill. We then walked back a different way (passing the new US embassy that’s in the process of being built). It was wonderful to get home and put my feet up (really aching after 5 hours of walking).

Saturday night involved several options- a relaxing movie with some of those we had been on the hike with, chilling at home, or a party. Since I’m still trying to get to know people and be friendly and sociable, I chose the latter, which was fun- potentially amazing views from the balcony, well, there would’ve been during the day. At night you could just see loads of lights over the hillsides, which was pretty but not amazing.

Sunday morning was a youth thanksgiving service, which was good, tho’ the invited speaker perhaps included a bit too much prosperity than I’m used to. I spent the afternoon with my feet up (still needed after Saturday) reading a fictional novel based on the West Coast of Africa; it’s v good (am almost finished despite having only started yesterday but then have always been fairly voracious in terms of reading) and I think I’ll have to try and find some more stuff to read. Fortunately all the expats seem to bring a fair amount of books with them- especially if they’re out here for sometime- plus the British Council is meant to have a fairly extensive library, so I won’t run out of books to read for a bit. In the evening we went to Alex’s- a bar/restaurant on the beach, which I really like (and the company was fun too).

Didn’t quite make it down to the beach proper (at least not during the day) this weekend, but this wasn’t really a problem since we’ve already been to 3 and have only been here 3 weeks- ah well, I’ll look forward to exploring another beach soon.

Labels: church, Krio, trek, weekend

posted by Nenya @ 9:50 pm