So I figured it was time for an update, just so you know I'm still alive...
The past few months have been much of a muchness, with little to report, and less time to report it in.
I've been hard at work, most of the time, and my free time while extensive is limited by electric and the large number of people I know here in Kerewan making demands on my time.
I pop in for a quick chat to one compound and they want me to stay for hours, it is rude not to have food with them, and people here have so much free time that they nothing of telling you to stay for food knowing it wont be ready for 3 hours...
If I don't visit someone every day they tell me they miss me and sound upset that I am not visiting. Yet I am friends with people on 4 compounds, besides people from work, and random people on the street who invite me to have an ataya (china green tea).
If I'm at home my compound family visit me every day, some of them could visit 4 or 5 times, and this means most of my time when there is electric is spent talking to the people on the compound, or letting them use my computer for facebook, or computer lessons or transferring music to their MP3 players/ phones.
I generally have time to do my own thing in the afternoon between power off and on, (currently 1pm power off and 7pm power on), but it is too hot to run the computer without a fan, and my battery only lasts an hour or so now, so even if it is cool I struggle to have time for much.
Today strangely the power came on an hour early, maybe they have changed the schedule for a bit, or maybe it is just a one off.
So that is it for now, I hope this doesn't come off as a moan, as I'm still really enjoying life (other than my 5th or so stomach upset last week.
I have a few posts to make about the last few months when I get a chance, tentatively named "Snakes, sun and sangria", "Gambian Church Synod", and possibly a third one "Making a difference, can I?"
