Patience

One thing that I have learned from being in Africa so far is patience.  I now have the skill of waiting patiently especially for transportation.  Today we are on the journey of visiting our permanent site for a few days.  We just finished a two day workshop with our community representative and are heading to meet our new village that we will be living at for the next two years.  My community representatives name is Amadou Jallow and he is a community health nurse that lives in Sare Alpha.  He is a very nice guy and I know he will be fun to work with for the next two years.  We headed out from Jenoi where the workshop was held around 8 oclock and had been waiting to catch the bus for about 4 hours.  Many buses had come but there was never enough room to accommodate all us trainees so we kept on waiting.  We finally caught a bus at noon and headed to Basse which was about a 3 to 4 hour ride.  This bus ride was very bumpy and scary at times.  You see in Africa there are many animals such as goats, sheep and cows that like to cross the road while taking there time so many times the bus would have to honk or swerve around them which does slow up the ride.  There was one point where the driver had dodged a heard of goats and the bus almost tipped over, many people screamed and were mad at the driver.  I like to describe the public transportation just like a ride in an amusement park.