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The week that went

The reason for the lack of postings this week is because on Monday we had a bank holiday (v rare in Sierra Leone so everyone makes the most of it) for Eid, so a large group of us went down to the beach for the day- it was a bit cloudy to start with but the clouds lifted in the afternoon and the sun came out. The water is so gorgeously warm, and the setting is beautiful. Yet again however I forgot to take my camera, so will obviously have to go back again, the place was unoriginally named River No. 2 beach, after the river flowing through the beach. We were also treated to some fly-bys from the marines who were moored off the coast ready to take part in various exercises this week. Thanks to my day on the beach am now a slightly more healthy colour instead of the insipid pale that I turn when I don’t see enough sun for far too long ;-)

Anyway, the rest of the week involved a trade workshop, which was really interesting (at least from my point of view) since I’m still very much in the ‘learning’ process and so could find out direct from each ministry what their priority areas were for growth/expansion and where they felt they needed more donor assistance in order to assist trade growth.

The evenings have been busy too- a strange film on Tuesday evening, a challenging study on Weds and then a girls night in last night. Tonight we’ve got our Krio lesson, tho’ I haven’t properly looked over/ remembered last weeks which isn’t good.

Anyway, that’s my excuse for the lack of writing recently and I hope this has given you an idea of what’s been going on. Am still looking for a car and haven’t found any in my affordability bracket yet, but am sure something will turn up eventually.

Look forward to hearing how life’s going with you.

Labels: eid, river no. 2

posted by Nenya @ 3:36 pm