Cop the funny

I found this sign in the prison superintendents office.

The classroom furniture for the new school was made at the local prison workshop. They loaded it onto a 3 tonner - without any tie-downs - and we rode on the back to help unload it. The sight of 3 muzungus on the back of a lorry amused all the locals no end.

The road is unfinished by the school, by which I mean rough. One girl naively sat on the spare wheel which was lying on the bed of the lorry: a sudden lurch bounced her so hard on her coccyx that she nearly fainted and had to recuperate lying in the shade at the first stop. I survived by hanging like a monkey with one hand on the roof bar and the other on the side one. Legs were simply pistons the truck used to launch us into the air.Read more