There are no good students, just good teachers.

This last week, since tuesday we have been doing the training in informatics to the teachers of the nursing school. We have taught them some basic skills of computers, word, excel and power point and on saturday morning we will have our last class to evaluate if everyone had understood everything.

In the afternoons, we have been having walks around to show the village to Mireia, the new nurse. Today we went to see Javi playing football with the locals, we played with the children and we took some pictures of the team.

Yesterday we were invited to a celebration in the Brother's house. Here, the brothers, celebrate their saints instead of their birthdays and they use that day as a thanksgiving day. It was Mireia's saint too so she participated in the celebration.

 

Tomorrow we will go to a funeral of a beloved friend of the brothers and in the afternoon we will go to Makeni to buy some food for Jennifer's birthday party, that will be on saturday.

We are  enjoying our last days here as much as we can!

The last week is here!

This weekend unfortunately we didn't have internet and we have been disconnected from the world. Althougth it could seem tragic, it  has been peacefully and allowed us to live as in a summer camp, to start the weekend we went for a walk with some Inés friends who wanted to say goodbye to her.

On Saturday we woke up with a really intense rain so we stayed home working. In the afternoon we went to see again where the Ebola infected people where isolated and then we started watching a serie called ¨The Handmaid's tale¨.

After having dinner, we decided to say goodbye to Inés, who was leaving on Sunday, by making a camp fire and eating some toasted marshmallows. We had some trouble to decide where to make the camp fire as we were afraid of burning the garden that we finally made it inside a pot.

On Sunday we woke up without wifi and later the lights went off until the afternoon. We spent the whole morning chilling in the porch.  After lunch we said goodbye to Inés and we went to the hospital to get some internet connection so we could work a little.

As Inés left, Mireia arrived and brought lots of food with her (Nutella included). Today we have worked all the morning and part of the afternoon, then we have gone to the tailor to pick up some things we ordered and to show Mireia a little part of Mabesseneh. Now we are still watching the serie we started, we don't have good internet connection yet but Mireia brought all the seasons downloaded (we already love you Mireia).

Tomorrow we are going to start with the informatics training to the teachers of the nursing school and Javi will keep working on the electrical installation of the school.

Wish us good luck and we will keep you informed ;)

Working days

After a very relaxing weekend this days we have worked hard under the rain. It has rained every day but it hasn't stop us from working neither going to order more pieces to the tailor. As Quim always says, "hemos venido a jugar".

Today we decided to stop our work for a while and went to visit our friends at the hospital while they were teaching a seminar to their nursing students on how to pass an intravenous canula. Here you can see some photos we took during the seminar.

In the afternoon Ines and Bego decided to go beyond to the african culture and braid their hair.

This days Javi is working hard with Dani in the electrical installation of the school while Bego and Sonia are finishing the plans of the hospital and preparing a training in informatics for the teachers of the school.  

Let's go to the beach

As Murphy says, we woke up at 4.30 to go to the beach and it was raining; even though we got into the car and as soon as we went there we fall sleep again.

We first went to Freetown to change money, we had breakfast at a very good place called The Crown Bakery and we arrived to the market where the capitalism won. We spent lots of money there buying some random things.

Fortunately, when we went out from the market it had already stopped raining, we continued our drive to the beach and we could barely see Freetown, the fact that everything was really different from Lunsar and all the little villages we have seen before shocked us, in addition it was really different from any other European capital that we could have ever visited. There we discovered what "local way of driving" means.

After a rollercoaster with the minibus we finally got to the beach and there really started our relaxing weekend. 

We basically switched between two activities during the whole weekend, when the rain allowed us, we swom in the sea or we rest on the beach, but when started to rain we read or played card games at the porch. But as we said before, the capitalism has always been present during the weekend, so we couldn't avoid buying some things at the local shops and of course take some photos.

It was not a problem to decide what to eat, because there were only two options, fish or chicken for lunch and the same for dinner. Hovewer, everything was very good.

Jennifer's birthday is on the 19 but Ines is leaving this sunday so we decided to pre-celebrate it and we surprised her with a little cake made by a nursing student.

Now we are back into routine and here you can see some photos of our weekend:

 

The container is here!

After two weeks waiting, the container with all the material needed for the electrical installation of the school has finally arrived; it also includes lots of first need products and other things. It has been very interesting and funny to see (and try to help) how they unloaded it, in a totally contrary way than how it would have been unloaded in Europe. Here you can see some photos and wonder how they have downloaded everything without a pallet truck. 😂

 

In the photo above this lines you can see all the material needed for the electrical installation of the school; when we have finally ended unloading everything we could start helping Dani with the installation. 

 

Meanwhile Sonia and Bego continued with the plans, Bego has replaced Quim, the new marriage has to be kept in secret here, because if discovered we can end at the prison. 

Quim has arrived safe to Barcelona. 

Tomorrow we are going to Freetown and we will spend the weekend at the beach so we won't be updating the blog until sunday or monday. Try not to miss us so much!! 

First goodbye

Today we said goodbye to a part of our team, Quim. He is now going to the airport and yesterday we made a little party to say goodbye to him. After a hard-working day, we gave him a little present, as you can see in this photo:

Then we went to a party organized by Francesco, who have been here for 2 years as a Cuamm worker; for the occasion we were all wearing the same typical african shirt. We shared some drinks and some music with the locals and then we continued the party at home. We played some games, we danced and we ended up with a water battle. 

Today morning we have trained the administrator of the school how to use the school software, and he had learned very quickly.

Quim and Sonia continued working as a team/marriage and we had lunch all together. After that, Quim left to the airport and we went to the nursing school to made a little interview to our friend Patrick for one project. Here you can see a frame of the video:

Now we are going to the tailor to pick up all our gifts and clothes, tomorrow we will show you some photos.

Improvised monday

Today has been a kind of improvised day. The initial plan was to prepare a eschema of the content that we are going to explain in a training that we are planning to do with the teachers of the school, then go to the school to prepare the things to teach the administrator in the management program and them meet him to organize his training. But when we arrived at the school the generator was not working so all the plans changed. We brought the generator home to try to repair it, and we succeed!!

The only thing that we needed was a connector and we went to Lunsar to buy it.

When Sonia and Quim ended their work with the plans Quim and Javi went to play football with the locals.