It was Bright Idea at the Time!!

At the end of our training, in Theis, we thought it would be a nice idea to ride the train to Dakar. We had asked around and everyone told us the train would be running that Sunday and it leaves at 6:45, so we had to be at the train station by 6.

So we all got up (about 17 of us) at 5am in the morning after been up all night for the past two days. We walked all the way across town with ALL OUR LUGGAGE. This was a month’s worth of luggage and all the other things we had accumulated over the month. Needless to say it was a lot of SH*T. Each of us had at least two bags and most of us had more. This was usually a 20mins walk, so with all our stuff in the dark it too k us about 45mins. SOOO FUN. There was no taxi (cab) in sight; the only cars we saw were those that were dropping off bread.

So we were doing all this walking and we had NO IDEA where the train station was, we were just going with faith and hoping we would see it. I guess this is how this whole journey has been, and how it would continue. “Just going by faith and hoping all will be okay in the end.” So me and two other people saw a cab, we decided to take it: not knowing where we were going, while suffering from back pain. Thankfully the driver knew where the station was.

(You would be surprise how many drivers don’t know where things are BUT say they do, and after minutes of driving around ask you how to get to your destination. I DON’T KNOW. You are the driver. Thank God these cabs don’t run on a meter system. If it was so, it would be one hell of a ride, spending all our money on cabs and these crooks just been crooked for NO REASON).

So the station was less than 5 minutes away from where we took the cab, BUT we were thankful for the relief on our backs. SOOO guess WHAT? We get to the station and the TRIAN DOES not run on Sunday’s. Thanks people for giving us the wrong info.

But what do know, the Lord work in mysterious ways. Our cab driver was like, “wait here, I can go to the garage (the place where we take transport for outer-city journeys) and get you a mini-car that can take you to a Dakar. A mini-car is like a van that stops on the way to get people and drop people off.

So we sent two people with the cab driver to get the mini-car. About 20 minutes later they were back with the car YAYAYAYYA.

So we got our own private car that dropped us off right at our destination.  Usually it would just drop us off at the garage, and we had to find our way to our destination.  Overall it was cheaper than what we would have spent.

YAYAYA… one for the Toubabs..

Us on the mini van

                          WE ALL MADE IT SAFELY