Slow Day in Conakry
Aug. 8th, 2022 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aggienautAugust 8th, Day 39 - nothing much to report today. Woke up in the luxurious hotel in Conakry. Around 13:30 Bailo came and drove us to the office, which was just maybe a kilometer away but we got stuck in bad traffic before turning down side streets. We were there for a few hours and i found I'd allowed myself to be in a situation where i had nothing to do and was without my reading books. I had my phone but unlike many other people i don't find continuous hours of entertainment on my phone, though i did my best on this occasion.
Then we walked back to our hotel. As we were walking two pick up trucks full of gendarmes in black riot gear, and i was reminded of the warnings I've been getting from the security consultants about the possibility of civil unrest any day now.
Also i passed a healthy and clean looking white horse tethered to a light pole among all the mud and filth and splattering motor vehicles here, it seemed very out of place and i really don't know why it was here.
Nothing else really noteworthy to report today. Looks like my computer won't be repaired here. Tomorrow we are supposed to meet with USAID. Dr Bob was notified his flight for tomorrow night has been delayed for four hours -- I've been apprehensive that any one of my several connections might be delayed and cause me a cascade of missed flights so this development didn't make me am less apprehensive.
Solution to keep flies out of my drink.
Oh and i missed my high school 21 year reunion the other day (couldn't have it last year due to covid). So that was a thing that happened.
Then we walked back to our hotel. As we were walking two pick up trucks full of gendarmes in black riot gear, and i was reminded of the warnings I've been getting from the security consultants about the possibility of civil unrest any day now.
Also i passed a healthy and clean looking white horse tethered to a light pole among all the mud and filth and splattering motor vehicles here, it seemed very out of place and i really don't know why it was here.
Nothing else really noteworthy to report today. Looks like my computer won't be repaired here. Tomorrow we are supposed to meet with USAID. Dr Bob was notified his flight for tomorrow night has been delayed for four hours -- I've been apprehensive that any one of my several connections might be delayed and cause me a cascade of missed flights so this development didn't make me am less apprehensive.
Solution to keep flies out of my drink.
Oh and i missed my high school 21 year reunion the other day (couldn't have it last year due to covid). So that was a thing that happened.
