Work and everyday life in Masanga

I have now really gotten use to my new life in Masanga, work is good, but sometimes difficult. We got some problems because of the langue barriers between me and the Laundry employees. And I have also felt that it has been difficult for me to deal with the slow tempo down here. But somehow I have managed to get use to it and try to get the best things out of it. It doesn’t help me not to. The engineer David, an Irish/Sierra Leonien guy from Freetown, who is going to help me with a water heating system for the Laundry, who were suppose to come three weeks ago, but didn’t, arrived Tuesday two weeks ago and stayed until Friday morning. He was very nice to talk to, and had good ideas about how to build a water heating system for the Laundry. Now he has started thinking and drawing, and hopefully we will soon start the actually building work. Excited to see how much of the building work I actually will manage to experience while I’m still here. Beside my work at the Laundry we (Lærke, Anne Mette and I) has started a clean-up in “Big Store” some weeks ago. We have spent quite some time there now, and it seems to work. Now we are in a waiting position, waiting for the carpenter to build us two new shelves. Now been waiting and asking for the shelves for two weeks.. Hmm..