We rather selfishly decided last night to book Abdoulie so that we could go to the beach today. I have workshops planned for the next weekend and the students will be with us after that. They get a trip with Tony’s Tours to the beach but I decided to grab the opportunity to have one day of relaxation (even though it is early in the trip).
So I am now sitting on our verandah, keeping this journal up to date and planning the work for the coming week. I intend to take my day-to-day planner with me to the beach but even here it is very pleasant to be in the shade on a very hot sunny day, the wind wafting the large banana leaves like fans to keep me cool(er) and listening to all the sounds: children playing, many different birds twittering, chirping and calling and the rhythmic pumping of the well water.
We have not been able to get on to the internet so far since we arrived but Tony has gone to the office to investigate. The problems with electricity supply have returned in the last fortnight. Apparently the fuel supply is limited and so the authorities are rationing access to evenings only. This makes sense for domestic purposes but not when we are trying to run a school and computer classes. However Bert’s brilliant generator helps keep a limited number of computers going for the office although the printer clearly uses too much and cannot find the energy!
Took some planning material to the beach but also relaxed in the warm sun and cooling sea. After an hour of having the whole place to ourselves, apart from the friendly greetings of the owners of the bar, a large Lebanese family decamped near us, set up a BBQ to cook very smelly meat and allowed their numerous plastic cups and plates to be buffeted across the pristine sand. It was such an intrusion to the ambience, so with the sun slowly descending we left around 5.30 pm and returned to a lazy evening on the verandah playing draughts
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