November 23rd
I went to the market this morning to get Rebecca’s phone charged
since they do it downtown for 1000 Leones, a quarter. The
universal charger she bought is pretty much rubbish. Over four
hours of charging and getting her one bar of three and lasting
under a day. I haven’t been feeling very well today. My stomach
has been upset all day, it has been cool all day and I haven’t
stopped sweating, and I feel extremely fatigued. It may just be that
I’m feeling stressed out since I have been out of contact for so
long. I mean I did get to talk to my mom and my friend Rhett, who
is just awesome and a great encouragement, on Sunday but I miss
getting to read the e-mails I get from people and being able to
write bad. It also doesn’t really help that I just found out that I
probably won’t have internet for a while, at least a week. Class
was ok today, nothing special. I gave back the quizzes to the 2s and
3s but I didn’t have the 1s so I’ll give those back tomorrow. I
finished up class and headed home at around 4. When I got home
Randy had finished putting together this rocking chair that the
Asher’s had sent over. Tom showed me an example of an African
attempt at a rocking chair. The carpenter had made the bottoms
of the legs flat because he was afraid that they would get hurt by
the moving chair. They brought this one over to serve as an
example for him because they want to put some in the OB ward
for the pregnant mothers. Anyway, after dinner everyone went off
to their respective places of residence or down to the hospital to
see some patients. Today was not a good day for children sadly.
There were two deaths, a 15 year old and a 3 year old, both were
girls. The 15 year old died early in the morning due to complications
with gastrointestinal bleeding. The three year old died in the late
afternoon; she had cerebral malaria and meningitis. She was being
treated for both and was improving then suddenly took a turn for the
worse and died. It’s such a hard and sad thing, but all too common
here. When Tom and Rebecca came back we watched two episodes of CSI
before going to bed.
Greetings from Sierra Leone
Ryan Brooks
Saturday, November 27, 2010
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