Africa Overview

School's been busy as usual, and it will take me a while to write everything down. So I'm going to list all the things that I'm going to talk about (or at least try to talk about), so I won't forget. If there's anything on the list that particularly interests you, let me know and I might write about it before others. I might not even get to write about everything.

Things to write about:

Day 2 - Saturday 3/25
early morning
nurse doing an IV on a doctor
breakfast at the hotel
first impression of Africa during day time
national cleaning day
going to the Door Church for the first time
trying to get to downtown/beach
walking around the "city"
Anthony "Ali"
drive to dinner
asians (or lack thereof)
dinner with the US ambassador
cassava and goat
Freetown at nighttime

Day 3 - Sunday 3/26
church service in Africa
leaving for Bonthe
bus ride
Moyamba junction
bumpy road
negotiation with the angry driver
being carried into the boat
midnight boat ride
stargazing on the boat
Samuel Cabu
low tide
the dock too far
"omolankit"
Solomon Lewis
Moses Peaceman
rooming situation in Bonthe

Day 4 - Monday 3/27
shower
laundry
breakfast
setting up the clinic
pharmacy
counting pills
the Bonthe team
bloody Jonathan
St. Joseph Clinic
Dr. Sammy
hole-in-the-ground toilet
the "big fat" surgery
night walk
crabs, frogs, and lung fish

Day 5 - Tuesday 3/28
second day of clinic
education system in Sierra Leone
freshest chicken you'll ever have
the "little fat" surgery
giving out reading glasses
first evangelical rally
John Blackinson
night walk again
Pastor Cecil
secret societies
juju, human transformation

Day 6 - Wednesday 3/28
third day of clinic
the "tiny blob" surgery
man with leprosy
fungus on the leg
second evangelical rally
my testimony
music presentation by the Americans
packing and giving away

Day 7 - Thursday 3/28
walk around Bonthe
Queen Victoria's hiding place
airstrip and the ruined airplane
the boat ride up the river
driving the boat
Matru
negotiating with the van driver
the worst and the longest van ride ever
listening to African rap
missionary stories
Moyamba juction, once again
running into Kenema team
back to the hotel

Day 8 - Friday 3/29
sleeping in
Lunsar team's encounter with witches
ferry port
preachers and blind singers on the ferry
deaf, mute, and crippled
Dr. Czer's miracle
airport
cheeseburger and fries in Africa

As you can see, I have way too much stuff to talk about. At least now I have a list, so hopefully I won't forget them. I will write about them little by little as I find time.