This is Africa

 My Sunday:
0615 ~ Wake up!
0700 ~ Meet Daniel (local that works on the ship) on gangway along with 9 other girls.
0800 ~ Ride the Ferry to Lungi (just across the waterway from ship)
1000 ~ Church Starts (very charismatic Pentecostal church ... there may have been some casting out of demons in the back of the church)
1310 ~ Church Ends
1315 ~ Climb into Dodge Durango with 10 other girls and a driver (four girls to each row and Fran and I shared the front seat ... btw neither Fran nor I are petite little girls)
1330 ~ Arrive for lunch (the senior pastor's wife surprised us with a home-cooked African meal, it was delicious; fried chicken, cous cous and fried plantains)
1415 ~ Miss Ferry (apparently Daniel thought the ferry left at 1400, as he put it we "slightly missed the ferry")
1430 ~ Find water taxi (ok this needs explanation, this is not a taxi by American means, it is basically a "john boat" with a motor on the back)
1500 ~ Carried to taxi by big African man (haha ... yes that is right, they scoop you up like a baby and carry you to the boat)
1510 ~ Off we go (we are zooming across the waves of the ocean, they hand you an orange life vest which you can choose to wear or sit on ... your choice. The small girl sitting beside me is holding onto my skirt for dear life and crying)
1535 ~ Arrive back into Freetown (we had to climb out of the boat and onto stairs right beside the water, Daniel asked if I was okay, my friend sitting beside him said "She's not a little girl!" This is true I do love adventure)
1545 ~ Find a moto-taxi to take us back to wonderful Bad Boy Lane (where the ship yard is)
1555 ~ Arrive home safe and sound and recount crazy stories of the day
Overall throughout the day all I could think to say is .... this is Africa!