Happy Easter Weekend!
on Shona in Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone), 24/Apr/2011 19:01, 34 days ago
Happy Easter! It’s been a chilled weekend. It was Cleaning Day yesterday morning - they are trying to get the streets as clean as possible before the Independence Celebrations on the 27th April (while Britain is filled with Union flags to celebrate Kate and Wills’ wedding, there are green, white and blue flagsEVERYWHERE here for the 50th anniversary of independence). Because of Cleaning Day we couldn’t go out in the morning so I just chilled out, read and watched the newest Harry Potter film (I don’t often have the time or the electricity to watch a whole film so this was a treat) before heading tothe swimming pool.Cat and I headed to Aberdeen for dinner with some other friends. We had the most funny taxi journey to get there– Cat and I shared the front seat, while there were 10 (I counted!) children in the back seat! It was absolutely hilarious (and clearly not to be attempted at home!) and the children were all laughing and giggling so much that I started giggling too.Happily we all got there safely to enjoy dinner, followed by a great dance performance by some kids and adults, who were doing amazing acrobatics (although I did keep worrying that they were going to fall on the concrete).Today I celebrated Easter Sunday morning at the International Church, followed by a chilled out lunch with friends and more chilling at home, blogging and reading. It’s been a nice change not rushing around trying to do things. Back to work tomorrow, but I’ve got Independence on Wednesday to look forward to.