This week was pretty exciting, it's sunday morning as I'm writing this and this is my only full day off this week... On friday evening the president of Benin came on board, it was a hectic day because we didn't actually know when exactly he would arrive... and he was only 3 or so hours late! There was a ceremony where we welcomed him and showed him what we would be doing while we were in his country, he also said a few words, within which he invited us all to go and have a meal with him at his palace!
We'd prepared a meal for him and all the other guests, which was about 70 people in all, but unfortunately the president didn't actually stay for dinner! We still served lots of other guests, but it was a long evening.
At the moment we have quite a few guests on board that from a vision trip, where they are coming to see what we do. They are leaving today, so for their last evening we had an 'African Dinner' All the crew from West Africa were invited along with all the vision trip guests. They ate traditional West African food and there was some singing and dancing aswell. It was a really fun evening and a friend Judi and I had some African clothes made by a local tailor during the week which we wore while we served.
Our African Outfits!
Earlier in the week the American Ambassador also came on board, so this week was a realy week for guests!
American Ambassador
The first surgeries also started down in the ward, so the real work is underway down in the hospital, in a few weeks we should be able to go and watch some surgery which will be amazing!
There will be more photos to come of the president, and African dinner, they were taken by the photographers on board so just waiting for them to become available!
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