Gambia Photos
on Kanti Akhtar (The Gambia), 07/Feb/2010 12:41, 34 days ago
John and some of the Gambian staff from the VSO office at our welcome party.Andrew, Marielle and Melanie some volunteers who were already in the Gambia.Tom and his wife Lynn, existing volunteers, with Lucy, a volunteer from my group, in the middle.Some of the VSO staff, Peter in the middle is a volunteer from Kenya (the girl on the left does admin at VSO and the guy on the right is our driver)From the left Melanie and her partner, they are both physiotherapists volunteering in the Gambia, Phil the Hamster is in the middle (trying again to stay awake - this time for the welcome party), and Tom on the right.Try to guess who is in the middle between a VSO staff member and John.This is Rachel (pulling a silly face), Phil the hamster, Liz and I waiting in the immigration office for our residential permits. A very long wait!The highly technical staff and the theological lecture in the immigration office. Actually they were the staff in the office doing a great job while the guy who appeared to be the boss gave us a lecture on education in the Gambia (he prefers corporal punishment)Kate, Lucy, Peter, Rachel, Phil the Hamster and Liz waiting, waiting, waiting.... (Liz and Peter are married)Phil the hamster, Rachel and Peter waiting for the highly technical typewriter to do it's workThe staff in the immigration office hard at work.The staff again, making up our alien cardsWhile we were waiting in the immigration office a very official looking lady in a brown security uniform started looking for her car keys - she started screaming "is it my stupidity or old age" and she repeated this several times. I didn't know what to say because either she is stupid or old and both are offensive. Both ways I can get into trouble. Finally I gathered some courage and said "it is not stupidity!". The other volunteers were very quiet and scared to say anything.