Sierre Leone People, Very Intelligent!

What’s the right way to describe them? They’re like a sponge. They absorb everything. They’re very, they’re intelligent people. There’s no doubt about that. They can put together anything, especially cars. They can take a car that was coming out of a junk pile. And it’ll be going by the time the day is done. I’m serious, they’re amazing like that. They did uh…well Sierra Leone has always been a British Colony. The British freed the slave trade there years ago so they’ve been there ever since. And yeah, they respect the people there. They just want…they want I guess a free shake, or a good shake in life.


Interviewer: And looking back at your time there and coming back to Canada, do you feel it was necessary for you people to be there?

Yeah. Yeah. It was necessary to be there, for someone to be there. But, what a lot of people don’t understand is, you can’t go there with the intention of solving all the problems. You’re not going to do it. Forget it. You’ll come back totally disappointed and all that. If you can change one little thing, that’s perfect.

Interviewer: And do you believe you did that? You accomplished that?

Umm. Yeah. In a general sense, yeah. Six months is long but yet it’s too short. Because you’re just getting…it takes you a month to get in there and get settled away. You got to take three weeks holiday somewhere. There’s two months gone. So, the last month, you’re getting ready to come back. You got about three months there altogether. And you can’t do all that much in three months. And once you get to know people and so forth and so on, it’s time to pack up and go. And that’s why it’s important that you can’t go in there with this intention that, “I’m going to do this, this, this and that.” These people look at you, like I say, they’re intelligent people. They look at you and say, “You’re going to be gone in a couple of months.”