Saturday, January 5, 2008

My day started at 3, keeping the group motivated and organized and focused on getting everything around to leave. We had about 80 people and carry-on’s that had to make it to the airport, so the plan was to load the women, children, and elderly in the bus and put the men and the luggage on the big flatbed and take them all to the airport at the same time. However, someone decided that the flatbed was not suitable for travel and wanted to rent a tap tap, so we took the first two flights to the airport on the bus and flight would wait for the bus to return or to get them. Well after it was all said and done the last group of people did not leave the compound until about 630 which I thought was a little late, but it was not up to me and my job was to make sure they all left and had everything they needed and then to clean up the mess. So once that last group pulled away, it was time to powerhouse the cleaning, and since it was so rainy, we could not send out any laundry and had all these sheets and clothes to wash. By about 915 we were done with pretty much everything and sat down to chill for a little bit before lunch. After lunch I set up my tent with the help of Marvin, a gentleman that is staying until the 13th. Then I moved all my stuff up to my tent and got it all set up. After lunch we just kept doing laundry and finding little things that needed done to get ready for the next group. We did that until dinner and then called it a night and just rested and all turned in early because of how long of a day it was. Peace.