What’s happening in the Weekends?

The weekdays are going fast and a lot is happening, but the weekends in Masanga can be a little long if you do not plan to do something. It can be so quiet here and also, it’s so nice to have some luxury, compared to life here. So two weekends ago Camilla (architect volunteer) and I spend the loveliest weekend on a Hotel in Makeni. We arrived Saturday at lunch, spend the day at the pool and using the internet, and then in the evening we had a nice dinner and went to a night club Apax, that was very good fun. Last weekend four of the girls were going to Freetown to experience the Independence Day and a weekend there. I got the offer to join them, but I actually felt more for a weekend home. The week had been so busy so I needed a relaxing weekend. Saturday is church day, and from 9 am until around 12 am the Adventists are going to church and bible school. Mr. Fortune had invited me to join. So I decided to go and experience, I went there at 11 am - didn’t felt for bible school ect. I got there in time for the sermon and the hymn. Good experience. I sat next to one of the HOC’s (almost a doctor) from the hospital; B.S and he was so kind to translate when they didn’t. He also wanted me to sing, but had to disappoint him. Sunday, suddenly, wasn’t that relaxing. We (Emil, Anja, Caroline and I) decided to go on trekking, we climb the mountain; Masamank - the big mountain that we are looking at every day, our view from the hostel and from Masanga. It was a very nice trip, good view over the area that we live in - breath taking and hard work for the muscles. This last weekend we had arranged to go and see Bo, the next biggest city in Sierra Leone. We wanted to go and visit the MSF (Læger uden Grænser) Hospital. We have a good contact there, but unfortunately they didn’t have the time to show us around this weekend anyway – so I think that I want to go there again. The hotel where we stayed was very lovely. We enjoyed our self both by the swimming pool and on the tennis court – my arms are now as long as a monkeys arm. The city was a very nice city – the people there are used to white/Western people, so we were not that special, and that is nice to experience once in a while. We also went out to a night club and had good fun with live African music – meet some Norwegian people from the MSF hospital.