On Sunday morning Justin and I made the trip back to Fajara from the North Bank. We had to wake up and be ready for our bush taxi at 6am which allowed us to arrive at the ferry terminal at about 730 or 8 am in time to catch the second ferry across. As it turns out the ferry was late, which isn’t exactly uncommon here, so we ended up waiting for about an hour and a half before the ferry arrived. By this time there were a lot of people waiting to get on so it was pretty full for the trip across. Almost as soon as we were on the boat and ready to go it got really windy and cold and started to rain pretty hard. Needless to say I was very happy when we finally reached Sunbird lodge or ‘home’ as I have begun to refer to it, at about 11 am that morning.
The next day Justin and I had a meeting with Paul at the NGO Concern Universal in Fajara. When we were at NATC on the North Bank we met Jessica who is working on her masters thesis here in The Gambia and she got us in contact with him and mentioned we might be interested in the work he is doing here. At the meeting we learned that one of his projects is to redesign the basic rope and wheel pump so that it will be able to draw water from wells which reach depths of about 40m rather than what they are capable of now which is only about 25m. The project sounds very interesting and more directed towards what Justin and I are interested in doing so we have decided to cut our time with the garden and GamMol short and work on this project for the last three weeks that we are in the country.
Today we are moving back to Sanyang to stay with the Bojang family for about a week and a half while we wrap up our projects in the community.
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