Sunday March 3 2013

We have arrived at JFK after a relatively easy journey. The flight To Accra seemed like a short 9 hours, and then the continuation to Monrovia was easy. I was quite surprised by the speed with which we were able to claim our 21 pieces of luggage; unfortunately in counting to make sure we had all 21, we counted a carry on bag, and thus discovered that we had left one bag of medical supplies at the airport. It is well marked with multiple tags and decals identifying it as a JFK Surgery bag; Wilfred said we would pick it up in the morning. I had asked for a van and a truck to meet us, but only the van was sent; somehow we managed to get all of the bags ....oh except one...and ourselves into the van for the ride to JFK. A couple of notable things : there are 2 traffic lights on Tubman Boulevard now that weren't there in September ! And here are electric poles up n the neighborhood of the bungalow ! No wires yet, but I imagine that will be happening soon...and then the generator would no longer be needed here which would be wonderful ! In the meantime, the generator is running, and it's noisy, but I think i'm getting used to it already. We all went to the hospital tonight for a quick walk around and to scope things out. It appears that there are several cases waiting for us to operate on, so hopefully we can get off to a good start tomorrow. Then we cam back to the bungalow for dinner and an early night....we are all pretty exhausted from traveling.