Sneaking the internet...

As I'm sure all my faithful fans have noticed, we haven't had access to the internet for a while now. And in typical TIA (This is Africa) fashion the satellite provider is not rushing over to fix it for us. So tonight I'm sitting in the front lobby of the Union office, borrowing their wireless signal on my friend's laptop. (Don't worry we got permission and didn't sneak in under the cover of darkness)
Things are going well. We had a snag in our program schedule as the second session of participants received the wrong start date for the program so we were not able to start on Friday as planned and had to shift the entire program back one day, which eliminated our "free" day in the middle of the program so now we are working 8 days straight with no break. Sometimes we comment about how it's ironic that we are working with a union:) We don't really mind because this time we are teaching all the same things as the first session so we don't need to prepare very much, regardless they are long days starting at 8:30am and ending at 9:oopm. We did receive an extra day break before the second session started so we headed back to River No. 2 beach for the day. The day wasn't exactly sunny but it didn't rain so we were happy. I have one funny story from the day. Karen and I decided to go for a walk and explore the beach area. When we neared the end of the beach I suggested that we take a look at a lagoon that was behind us. I remembered someone telling me that the lagoon was nice to swim in because it is calmer than the ocean. As we neared the lagoon, Karen told me that one of the Sierra Leone co-tutours told her that there was quicksand in the area. We were just getting close to the water when the sand all around us started to cave in. Of course our first thought was "quicksand"! I panicked, I started clawing at the sand trying to get out of the hole that was quickly forming all around us. I really thought it was the end and that my body would never be recovered! Shortly after the sand stopped sliding and we were both able to climb out. We dusted ourselves off and looked around. No one even seemed to notice what had happened. We were so relieved to be alive! We told some of the Sierra Leoneons about it but they didn't seem the least bit concerned and just stated that they'd had a lot of rain lately and that it wasn't anything to worry about. Regardless, our team leader said we had to stay in her sight for the rest of the day:)
The second session is going well. I am tiring of teaching the same thing over and over again, I could never be a rotary teacher. The practice teaching will begin again shortly and then we will sit and critique their lessons.
Time is flying by. We calculated that in 6 days we will be leaving. The time has flown by. Our team has done really well together. We keep saying that for four women we have had relatively no drama, pretty good hey?
I am starting to daydream about some new food options. We are convinced that the restaurant at the hotel only had 5 items that they prepare in many different ways! We are happy to be eating well and are careful not to complain around others but we sometimes make lists of the foods we will eat first when we are home.
I am looking forward to spending a few days in Holland and re-connecting with my Dutch family. I better get going as others are waiting to use the computer.