frikandel

Pictures Saturday 20 september

1. This is the nurse who works at the clinic. He runs the place.
2. This are the beds of the clinic.
3. Me at the clinic. In this room they deliver the babies.
4. Same room as nr. 3
5. This is the lab of the clinic
6. The primary school of the village.
7. The people who lives at the compound. They were making flower. Or doing each others hare.
8. Same as nr 7.
9. Marjolein is a girl we met at the hotel. She lives her in the Gambia sometimes. She works at the clinic.
10. At the compound. I found a kid to bring home to Holland. His name is Lamin de Haan.
11. Me and Lamin again.
12. This is the place where they cook their diner
13. Marja has also a friend, how is it possible??
14. In the beginning the children were shy, but later they start to sing for me. These were one of the kids.
15. same as 14
16. The kids were singing.
17. As diner we eat frikandel with chips at the snackbar!

Friday we said goodbye to my parents and so as promised, my mum cried. It is strange to see them going and knowing that they will see my sisters the next day and I have to wait for 6 weeks.
But although they were gone, we were still enjoying the swimming pool and the nice pizza restaurant ;).
The next day we had a meeting with marjolein. She is a girl who live sometimes in The Gambia. She is also a nurse. Her husband is staying at the hotel of my parents, this is how we met her. She works here in a clinic upcountry. My parents went last Wednesday to the clinic. We also wanted to go, but it wasn’t possible for us to join them on Wednesday, because we had to work. We went with a normal taxi, it was a hour drive. First we saw the clinic. It has 4 beds and is for the people of the villages who has malaria or is in child labor. For big injuries oid the patient has to go to Banjul, our hospital.
The clinic is all sponsored by Dutch people, so if Dutch people doesn’t give anything, it will fall apart. It is also build by Dutch people. I gave some of the paracetamol, a gluco meter and some money that I got from a aunt and uncle (thanku for that!). They were very happy with that!
After we went to the primary school, also build by the same people of the clinic. It looks very nice. After we went to the compound. It really a shame that I can’t speak their language. Otherwise it was so much easier. I also met my own kid, Lamin, a very happy kid. Marjolein tried that the kids will singing ‘if you happy and you know it, clap your hands’, but they were a bit shy. Later when marjolein showed us the rest of the compound, they were standing in front of me to sing that song. Normally children will run as fast as they can, if they are near me. (pic 16). They were very cute.
These people are so different then the people in Banjul. These people work hard to earn some money. They earn like 100 dalasi, that is 3 euro. That is nothing! And then the women also have to cook and clean and wash their clothes. They don’t have a normal toilet or shower. They sleep on the ground. But then still it is difficult to help them. There are not one how lives like this, there are much more!

After our trip we went back to the western luxury, the swimming pool. That night we eat at the snackbar, frikandel and chips. Very nice! Tasted the same! The owners are Dutch. It was some kind of café. We had a drink and went back to Banjul.

Furthermore, everything is oke here. We leaving 4th of October to Bansang. Looking very forward, in Banjul it is very boring. That’s why we escape sometimes Banjul and go to Senagambia, the tourist place, where the hotel of my parents is and go for a swim. Monday we also went to the hotel. Marja and I went also for a nice walk on the beach for like an half hour. All our friends joined us, well…2 men. Eentje heeft zijn liefde verklaart aan Marja, she has his phonenumber. She is very happy with her new love of her live. And for me…Ik heb een nieuwe ketting gekregen, for free, van de lieve jongeman, named Smiley. What can I see…’it nice to be nice’.

ps. pictures will be another time on the internet, when i have 3 hours free