Leaving Freetown
The past weekend was a bit of a mix. On Friday I went to a Hajj (sorry if the spelling's wrong) party- my director came back from Hajj (pilgrimage to
Mecca), and invited us all to his for a party. I didn’t realise this was the reason for the party until after I had arrived and it was interesting to chat to people and meet others at the party and especially to chat to people from work in a more relaxed setting
.
Saturday morning was particularly boring- I was watching and supervising as two carpenters put up mosquito nets on our windows- this will hopefully mean that as the weather gets warmer, we’ll be able to have our windows open at night without having too many extra unwanted visitors.
We spent Saturday afternoon down at Lumley beach. This was more interesting than most visits to Lumely beach as the part we went to had a beach volley ball court, so we played a few games with some Poles and Russians that we met. I haven’t played volleyball since I arrived in SL (and not for sometime before that) and greatly enjoyed it- it’s so much nicer to fall/dive onto sand than other surfaces I’ve played on!
On Saturday evening, a group of us (almost entirely Brits which is unusual to have as a whole group here, but we were joined by one of the Irish contingent so it became slightly more ‘normal’) went to the Sierra Lighthouse for supper. It took ages to arrive (we knew that this would be the case tho’, since some of the group had been there before) and two people ordered blind off the menu-ie they looked at the Indian section and ordered something without quite knowing what it was. They ended up with what looked like green and brown slop (apparently curry), of varying degrees of heat.
Sunday was somewhat more successful- I went to church in the morning and then we went to Bouré beach, which was good fun and ate mackerel and oysters. The surf wasn’t particularly promising (for those wanting to surf), but it was good for swimming. The beach itself is very strange-every time I visit it, the beach has changed shape/terrain. For example, this time, there was a small inlet of water sandwiched between two parts of the beach-I’d never seen this before, despite having come to the beach at both low and high tides previously. There were a lot of people (mainly expats and Lebanese) down at the beach, relaxing in the sunshine; the water was slightly cooler than it was when I left and we think this is because the Harmattan dust stopped the sun from keeping the water as warm as normal, but still much warmer than it would be at home, particularly at this time of the year.
Anyway, back to the title of this piece- I’m going to be leaving Freetown for a bit and heading up country with work; this means I probably won’t be putting anything on my blog for a while, since I don’t know when I’m likely to have access to the net/time to write stuff for my blog, but if all goes well, I should have some good photos to bring back with me to go on my blog, as well as hopefully having avery interesting time while I'm there. Labels: beach, bouray, boure, volley ball, weekend
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