December 9th

Another exciting day of box sorting, I’ve done quite a bit and in a few days
time I should have it all done. It’s just crazy how much stuff people send, and
if any of you contemplate sending something to here, please if you don’t want it
because it’s broken, don’t send it here, it doesn’t work any better in Africa.
We had one last dinner together since Rebecca leaves tomorrow. Then Emma,
Rebecca and I went downtown to Pa Kanu’s store at about 7:30 or so, it’s the
only real place to go downtown at night that isn’t a dance club. Solomon and
Samuel joined us there eventually, Solomon had been busy at the hospital and
Samuel was coming back from Freetown (he had just left yesterday but he wanted
to be back to see Rebecca off). Zoey and Laura came along a little after that
and joined us. It was a proper party downtown. We had a great time and spent
several hours just talking and relaxing it was really nice. Samuel had brought
Emma and Rebecca a gift from Freetown, a dress for each of them. It was from him
and Solomon in appreciation of their coming here to serve at the hospital. Emma
got hers last night because she leaves Wednesday and Samuel will not get a
chance to go to Freetown again any time very soon. Apparently it was Laura’s
birthday tonight so we sang happy birthday to her, it was kind of strange to be
sitting downtown Kamakwie singing Happy Birthday to someone. We finally left
some time after 11, I’m not exactly certain of the time, I didn’t really look.
Solomon stopped at the hospital and stayed there because a lady who had started
going into labor in the morning was still in labor this evening and he wanted to
make sure it got sorted. He works so much more than he has to it’s really cool
the amount of time he puts into the hospital on a weekly basis, granted there
isn’t a whole lot to do here. It’s just shy of 1 now, and I have to be up by
5:15 since Rebecca leaves at 6am so she can make it to Freetown in time for her
flight. Going to be a very short night…

Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks