Day 2 - Church, Fishing Village, Tourism Development

Today we visited a church 'Our Lady's' in Waterloo, very close to both our schools, following this we went to small fishing village to see the work of the people who sell seafood in the market. The Partnership also support their work.

Wherever we go, the children treat us with quite dramatic affection and ask for us to take their photo, when they see their photo - they go wild with laughter. We realised today that this is because they do not have a mirror and so never see themselves!

One young boy would not let go of my hand today and it was very hard to leave the village we were in. Mr Jones please note (and MFL department) I was teaching Spanish and French in the middle of the street to some 15 children in the same village!

We can not overstate the amount of severe widespread poverty there is, however, everywhere we turn very happy adults and children greet us.

Also, today we visited Kent, where some of the Slave Trading took place. We saw the horrible low and cramped dungeons that the slaves were kept in and some of our group were quite emotional.

We also visited a tourism development initiative, showing that Sierra Leone is trying to make progress on all fronts.

Tomorrow we will be visiting our schools for the first time, although, we met some of the pupils at the Literacy Festival on Saturday.

We are having a very moving experience and would like to thank you all for your comments to date.

There are problems uploading photo's because the Internet in the hotel keeps losing it's connection so we have been unable to upload as many as we would have hoped.

Mr. Power and Miss Yardley