The roomies, from L to R: Heather, Jenny (my bunkmate), Savanna, Emma, me, and Tifanny. Yes, we are all in our pajamas. Not pictured - Kaleena, who just left, and Rebekah, who just arrived! Love you girls! 
A random guy hauling a huge cart of rice down the street. When these guys get going, they can be as dangerous as a car! well, that might be an exaggeration, but I certainly wouldn't want to have that much weight barrelling down on me with just a skinny little African guy for brakes!
The craft market in Freetown - every stall sells the same stuff, most of which you can find of much better quality in Benin, Togo, or Ghana. So I haven't bought much here.
Need junk? Come here!!
Monday and Tuesday of this week I had off, and Monday Emma and I and a friend Josh walked to the craft market, about 2 miles I guess. We got there and it was closed - Monday was a holiday! Wa waaaahhhh..... but it was a nice walk and I was glad to get out anyway, even if I did have a few PTSD moments having to do with really fast motos flying by me (my moto accident wasn't that long ago, and my face still has a shadow of a bruise....) SO on Tuesday, Emma, Greta, and Jeff (a married couple on my Dining room team) and I walked to a nicer restaurant to eat and then on to the craft market again! I intended to go to Cheshire house that afternoon, the place with the polio kids, but we didn't get back in time. Hopefully I can get back there one more time before we leave Sierra Leone! Anyway, they were both lovely days and it was nice to get out and see more of freetown. All of the above photos were taken by Emma (thanks, love!)
Yesterday and today were work days for me - work is going well, I'm enjoying my team and doing the best job I can do as a leader. It is additional stress over just being a team member, but my team is great and we have a brand new food service manager just starting with us who has worked and run many restaurants and I'm excited about some of the changes he's looking to make. So it's good!
This weekend I have off (Friday-Sunday) and it's looking a like a beach trip planned for Sunday? We'll see!! I hope so. I'm down to about 40 days left in Africa - crazy! Can't believe it is November 10th already!! No, I haven't figured out what I am doing next, besides going to MN for christmas where I just might freeze to death, making any more future planning fruitless! ;) If you want to hire me or pay for me to go to graduate school, shoot me an email :) peace, Krissy
Gaa. Freeze to death is right. There was snow on the ground this morning.
I will be sure to put an extra space heater in the spare bedroom when you stay for our sleepover! :)