Senegal Sightings 9

Friday: cleaning the water filter takes a bit of doing. A piece of Margreet’s banana bread is a welcome snack. (Ed: I don't see any of that banana bread so Henk must have devoured it!)

Saturday: Chris (a British literacy coordinator) invited us for some sightseeing. A taxi ride took us to the bottom of the hill where the lighthouse has been since 1864. It was a nice – not too steep- climb to the top and a great view over the airport and a part of Dakar. 

Chris suggested we walk to a little restaurant that he knew along the beach. We don’t think he realised the distance: we were okay for the five km hike as we were wearing our runners. Chris however had to put up with blisters forming what with wearing bare feet in sandals. It was a nice quiet spot with nice food and it was fun to watch the kids having fun in the tidal pool. (At the apartment the new lino was installed!)

Sunday: Sharon had again signed out the group vehicle so we made it again to the ICF church. Here we met Julie. Her parents worked with us in Cameroon and Julie would have been about nine at the time…and here she is working with CDC (Disease Control) with her husband and their 1-1/2 year old.

We went for quite a walk in the neighborhood that afternoon; we had hoped to get a bottle of coke at the nearest gas station, but that one was closed and (quite unintentionally) we took the long road back to the SIL center. Henk did some varnishing in the evening: everything takes four coats and it really takes a lot of time.

Monday: Gaby and Henk are back at it: Gaby started on the drawers while Henk did a bit more varnishing, cut a few more shelves and started on the doorframes. It all is rather labour intensive.