I went over to Port Loko for Charles' birthday. It's always good times seeing other PCVs.
Before I met up with folks, I did my monthly bank run to SLBC Port Loko. All the workers know me there now. I always have to bat my eyelashes at them b/c I always ask them for small bills and they hate doing that. But who can say no to Opoto eyes with a local name of Yainkain, lol.
At Charles' house, we made a fantastic gumbo with a summer sausage that Charles donated from his care package. Good lord, to taste something that is not plasas or something not swimming in pamayn!
Then we headed over to the water tower, climbed up, and chilled out at the top. We waited for the sunset as we threw rocks as far as we could into the open African bush. Also aiming for large puddles on dirt roads that were way too far for us to reach. I never really did shit like this. I felt like I was in one of those movies that takes place in a small town where a group of kids climb up the water tower to talk and usually some epiphany happens but the difference is that no epiphany happened, we were really just plain 'ole shooting the shit, lol. It does get surreal sometimes though. Every now and then, I have to remind myself that I'm in Sierra Leone. It really was beautiful being at the top of the water tower overlooking Port Loko and out into the bush with the cool breeze on our faces and the sun slowly setting.
Life is good here........
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