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And work got really busy

Hence why I didn’t write at the end of last week. I did have stuff to write about though, for example, on Thursday evening we went to an African night at the British council. It was done by the Ballanta Academy of Music and involved a singing (esp gospel), African dancing, fantastic drumming and their ‘Pets n bones’ (trumpets and trombones) group playing a mix of Salonion (Sierra Leonean) folk music and some from elsewhere in Africa. Was very cool- tho’ unfortunately we missed most of the choir due to bad traffic. The audience was mainly expat, but that didn’t stop a (somewhat cheesy) impromptu dance happening at the end.

Anyway work has suddenly got very busy- we’re preparing for a big meeting between high level donors and high level government people, so lots of work to do and things to finalise, which is really interesting and certainly keeping me out of trouble.

Our house is also beginning to look at bit more like a home, which is nice- we’ve finally got some stuff (cane furniture) to sit on for the veranda, thus making it a lot more homely and nicer just to sit and chill together in the evenings or first thing in the morning when we eat breakfast. We’ve also had the bars painted, so that they are no longer a dirty greying white, but a clean, shiny white, meaning it feels a lot less prison like (tho’ still very secure).

This weekend has been spent mainly at the beach; there’s several to choose from. On Saturday afternoon we went to Lumley beach- the closest one, tho’ certainly not a favourite of mine- tho’ does have several places you can sit and eat. Anyway, we were at Harry’s (not sure on the spelling) and sitting in the hammocks provided- v fun, until a huge wave comes up the beach and soaks everything on the ground- not good when that involves a friend’s bag (inc clothes, towel and a now very dead phone) and so the evening ended on a slightly more stressful note than would be hoped after a day on the beach.

Sunday afternoon we went the River No. 2 beach (v. original name) and this time I’ve got photos to prove it! Obviously this weekend is having a lot of very high tides because the tide came in a long way while we were there (also moving up to where we and our bags were but no ones stuff got wet, which was a relief. It was just a slight surprise, because the sandbar between the ‘kiddies pool’ (well, one that had been made naturally by the way the beach went) and the ‘proper sea’ had been big enough for some of the guys to play a bit of cricket and this got totally swamped over the course of the end of the afternoon. We ate supper on our way back to town at a popular restaurant (called Franco’s) near Sussex beach- where do they get these names from ;-) their menu is interesting and extensive tho’ it’s always wise to check what fish they have available because they invariably don’t have everything. Due to shortage of other dishes, I had lobster- was v nice, tho’ I’m still not sure what all the fuss is about, plus you have to work fairly hard to get your food.

I think that fairly much sums up what I’ve been doing. You’d be wise not to expect too much on the blog this week, since I think work is going to get even crazier as we head towards the upcoming meeting!

Labels: CG, lumley, music, river no. 2, sussex

posted by Nenya @ 1:49 pm