Sunday 28th September

With it being a Sunday it was up for church today and we were going with the bishop to the cathedral. As it was at the cathedral it meant a longer service than usual and that meant a full three and a half hours! Now that is commitment to church! Straight after was a meal in the newly decorated cathedral house. We were sat at the top table with such people as the minister for land, the minister for defence and the ex chief of education for Unicef. I got the feeling these people had ideas above their station sitting with the likes of us!!! But the chief of education may get involved with some of our work as she has now retired so it may be a good person to meet.

With it being the day of rest we went down to the beach for the afternoon. There was Dunc, Parks, Loz, Mark, MJ, Fatta and Ansu. After messing around in the sea with the football we offered a game of football, England vs Sierra Leone.

Match Report:
The English got off to a flying start and with some superb skill, flair and direct play quickly opened up a 6 – 0 lead involving some extreme celebrations in the sea. At this stage the English took their foot off the pedal and the superior fitness of the stacked Sierra Leonians took its toll and they came back into the game with 4 quick goals and some vicious fouling from the youngest player on the pitch! Luckily for the English Duncan Harper took the game by the scruff of the neck and scored a very important goal. This deflated the Sierra Leonians and they were never in it after that. At 9 – 4 the English kindly offered next goal the winner only for Harper to dispatch a typical 30 yard screamer which sent the adoring fans wild!
MOM: Duncan Harper for his important goals and typically awesome play!
Close Second: Lawrence Ivil for his 6 goal haul

By the time we got back to the flat it was getting pretty late so we got ready and went to Mr Waters for some tea. We had a couple of beers waiting for MJ and Fatta to arrive and then realised that Mr Waters was not serving food! After some deliberation and another beer we decided we’d head to Paddy’s as that is the only place that would be serving food. We jumped in a podahpodah into town and then a taxi out to Paddy’s. We had some western food which was a pleasant change and had few games of pool. Lawrence also got hit on by some locals but swiftly told them where to go in some harsh fashion! MJ was a bad influence and kept the boys out later than they wanted to. When it came to pay the bill we were short!!! We scrounged around everyone’s pockets as everyone had nervous laughter. We scraped together the money leaving us short for the taxi home. This was ok as we could get some money when we dropped MJ off. The taxi scraped along the floor as it had been welded together from 4 or 5 different cars! Duncan slept all the way home as it was past his bed time.