After another day of
measuring, cutting, planing and other woodworking activities we
walked with Ken Creech through our local shantytown across the
railroad bridge and the pedestrian overpass over the six lane (!)
highway to catch a taxi to have dinner at the Creech’s home.
We had a lovely meal with
Ken, wife Cheryl and daughter Rachel. This family hails from the
Kitchener/Waterloo area. Afterwards Ken went with us to hail a taxi
and haggle about the price. We settled on 1700 ($3.50) and off we
went. By now it was pretty well dark. Lots of people on the sidewalks
and on the road. A lot of cyclists, motorbikes and cars without
lights. Our vehicle had no seatbelts, no outside rear view mirrors,
no springs and no third gear. It did have brakes and an enormous
inside rear view mirror. Did I mention that the driver had little
French and amazingly didn’t hit anyone or anything. We made it back
to the center and gave the driver 2000 CFA (and keep the change,
thank you).
Wednesday Margreet joined
us to do more varnishing.
Gaby installed the first drawers. Never
realized how finicky a job it is to install the sliders properly.
Sometime in the afternoon it finally dawned on Henk what Gaby had
been saying about getting another sheet of plywood: he had used the
piece for the countertop to make more shelves!
Margreet and Edith walked
over to the next street to order take-out lunch. The Senegalese dish
is called Chabi and had rice, hot peppers, cabbage, fish, manioc,
grounded sweet nuts, carrots, tamarind, eggplant.
The whole dish
(five servings) cost $6 and after the five of us had our fill half of
it was left over. Sophie, the Senegalese center manager, was happy to
take it home for her family.
We had toast for supper after which Henk
went back to do some more varnishing.
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