Friday, February 2, 2018

Even though it was a late night arrival our three newest members of the medical team were down for breakfast dressed in scrubs and ready to go. At the end of the day I heard there was one C-section in the surgical room with no air conditioning. Imagine performing surgery with all your garb on in a fairly small room.
Many women came in to be seen in the fertility clinic. Sally explained that most infertility problems were caused by infections and fibroids.
Chet performed a tooth extraction. More details later.
Stacey took a field trip to the Special Needs School which is the only one in the country. Students with physical and/or mental disabilities attend the school. More info later. 
It's difficult at this point to get many photos from the medical and building teams since we are separated now.
The building team continues their punch list - a never ending list.

Uh-oh! Is that sensation what I think it is? 

The education team has proclaimed Jane as our photo and experience seeker. One never knows what experience or photo shoot is around the corner. Today's experiences included a baby goat, rice raking and selling in the farm market.




Besides being our cinema creator, Tim is also known for seeking out soccer opportunities. Time works a little different here. I would say it is "ish" time. 8:00 might mean 8:32. Tim and one of our drivers, Victor, takes advantage of the "ish" time by doing what they both love...kicking the soccer ball around.
CLICK link for Tim's latest video: Glimpses of School Visits

Pat is our historian and gives us invaluable information on past trips, library development, church history and just about everything we need to know.Here is the library at Urban Center which is a school next to the hospital. This is a head teacher in the library.






There is no doubt that Kendall is Money Man. He is always smiling when he is holding stacks of leones that total over a million dollars (in their monetary system) The team really appreciates Kendall, Tim and Victor (our driver). To get the best exchange rate the driver exchanges money with someone on the street.

Leonard's son attends the all boy school, Albert School. This secondary school is for what we considered middle and high school. Middle school boys wear short pants and high school boys wear shorts. Like any typical middle schooler Leonard's son is thrilled to have his photo taken with peers lingering around. Notice the person on the chair...

Source: Text and Photo Source
"In the old part of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, at the center of a roundabout surrounded by a concrete fence stands an enormous Cotton Tree (Ceiba pentandra). The tree is Freetown’s historic symbol and the city’s most famous landmark. Nobody is sure how old the tree is, but it is known to have existed in 1787 when the first settlers arrived. According to some sources, the Cotton Tree is 500 years old. It is believed that when a group of former African American slaves, who had gained their freedom by fighting for the British during the American War of Independence, landed in Freetown, they apparently rested and prayed underneath the shade of the tree"
The photo on the left is one of the team member's. There are billboards and campaigners surrounding the trees for the upcoming elections. A great many birds swirled around the tree as we drove by. The phrase of "flight of freedom" came to mind.
The other photo shows the cotton tree in a different season and view. 

Marci is "walking the plank". There is major road construction going on in Freetown. It can be quite dangerous to cross over to your destination. Of course I'm thinking it is dangerous to cross over without construction. Leonard and the guys are very brave as they often step in the middle of the road so the rest of us can cross. It will be a great improvement when the construction is complete.


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