More trips.

hi,
I just have a few minutes because we are going out to the chimpanzee reserve when the driver comes. Mind you, that could be anytime. The joke here is that they run on BMT which is black man's time.

Mohamed had his graduation party on Saturday evening. It started about 10 o clock when the last guest arrived and we all sat down first, with me one of the top table. we started with a short prayer from the Rev. David. This involved singing, clapping but not brevity, then a few short speeches, me talking on behalf of educaid. then we were all served with chicken and rice and I got another fish-head but this time I did eat some of the fish. They had set up 6 huge speakers and then the music and dancing began. It went on until nearly 3 but I gave up and went to bed at 12 and fell asleep despite the noise.The dancing was very energetic, made me tired just watching them but I did get up and dance.

On Sunday, we crowded into the Toyota to go to the beach with the uninspired name of beach number 2. It was lovely. I hired a big round beachhut for us all. The Atlantic was too rough to swim in but I did sit and let the waves come in round me. The sand was very soft and yellow but the best bit was the lagoon on the other side of the sandbar. It was just about deep enough to swim in but lovely and warm and with a clean sandy bottom. I spent ages just lying in it, wallowing really. It might attract more tourists if they called it paradise beach. We had bought some bread rolls and a big jar of mayonaise, but unfortunately no knife. We solved the problem by using the car key to get the mayonaise out and spread it. Very tasty.

I spent yesterday working most of the day writing resources. the electricity went off again in the evening, but unfortunately the generator has an airlock so it was torches out. I went to bed at 9 o clock. It was very peaceful because the lack of electricity meant that the locals could not play the music and I slept through until 6.30 when a local evangelical deemed it necessary to call us all to the Lord through a loudspeaker.

Well, BMT has struck again but I had better go and take the computer upstairs and get ready

best wishes, Pat