From Sierra Leone - Everyday things

Here are some of the "every day things" that we saw and experienced in Sierra Leone

Women carrying food on their head - "No fair using your hands!"

Typical gas station

Football fields (soccer to us) are in every village; this one was one of the better ones we saw.

See how the gas is going in through a plastic cylinder?  I didn’t understand why, but that was how they did it here.  This was in Lungi, after we left the airport before we made the long 3 ¼ hour trip around to Freetown. 

We passed this well as we were going through a village.  Someone said to me, “In America, you flip the switch, you expect electricity.  You turn on the tap, you expect water to come out.  Not so in Sierra Leone.”  I will never again take my washing machine and dryer for granted!

Wash Day!  Someone pointed out to me that these women just behind the sign, with their buckets and containers, were doing their laundry. 

So Michaella wanted to purchase some pineapples, and immediately there were about 6 young women, heads full of bowls of pineapples, surrounding our car. 

So that’s a car on top, it’s in a barn-like garage, and the guys working on it are in a rectangular cavity underneath.  Creativity when you do not have hydraulic jacks….