April 13th
We took this day to rest and re organize some things. Later that night we go down to talk to the safari tour people and they tell us that we are too late to book anything for the next day, but this guy has a friend and he will take us. So he calls his friend and while we are waiting for his friend to come we decide to go for a walk around town. When we get to the front gate there is a man there who is a guard and he is holding a huge elephant gun. We talk to him and he says that it is not a very good idea to go walking around town. Too dangerous. So we turn back and find our tour guide friend named Lawrence and wait and talk with him while his friend Gaspard is on the way. Lawrence tells us that he works 7 days a week from early morning until late at night and gets paid about $500 a month. He says if he doesn’t work this job there will be no other jobs for him, so he does what they tell him to. We told him he should start his own company with his friend and he said all he needs is capitol. If someone funded him he would start up a company no problem. A lot of that sentiment is going around Africa. It seems that most of the money that comes into Africa from other places goes into the government and doesn’t seem to reach the people. If you want to help you have to know someone specifically and give to them, that is the only way to truly know if the money is going to get there.
Gaspard finally comes after about an hour and David is able to negotiate a deal with him to take us the next day. We give our thanks to both men and we go up to our room to rest for the night.
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