December 18th – 22nd

I don’t know how often I’ll write daily blog posts anymore, I
struggle to find the energy and motivation anymore. Things are
pretty set for now and I doubt you all want to hear about the
daily grind every day. If anything special goes on I’ll be sure to
let you know but for the most part I get up and either do stuff
around the house or go to the hospital and help with rounds.
Have lunch, go teach till almost dinner time. Come home and
have dinner, then maybe do something with either Solomon or
some other friends. I still find it a pretty unique experience but
in writing without every minute detail of the things that
occurred throughout the day the days are going to seem pretty
similar. The lady I donated blood to on Sunday got another unit
of blood, this time from Tom. That’s her fourth unit of white
man blood and we were teasing one of the midwives, Mari,
that if the lady started turning white that it was ok because
she’s half white man now anyway. She got a kick out of that.
On Tuesday I got to do some more Honda practice. Solomon
let me drive from the house to the school and back around a
couple of times by myself. I’m hoping that we can start to go
farther soon. Until last night I hadn’t seen Alusine very much
during the week. He has class in the morning, I teach in the
afternoon and then he has class at night so it’s hard to interact
during the week. The Africans I met at the two beaches are still
getting me to call them pretty regularly. (they flash me and I
call them since they don’t have the money to call me).
Thursday night I went down to Pa Kanu’s with Solomon and
Samuel for the first time since Emma left. I feel bad because I
mostly hang out with Solomon and not much with Samuel
since when Rebecca and Emma were here we always hung out
with both of them. So I was glad for the chance. I got to watch
another c-section this week. The lady had twins (both boys but
not identical). Anyway, I think that’s about it. Karen leaves
tomorrow for Freetown for several days, then I’ll post again.

Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks