Our last day! We had all of our bags packed with mixed feelings. We could not stay around the hotel really but they did allow us to lock our suitcases up in their storage so we could come back later, our flight wasn't until 11.30pm so we had to amuse ourselves for a while longer.
We all headed back to our lovely swimming pool. Spent hours there! Had a lovely time at the pool bar and swam a lot as well as sunbathing. We taught Sani how to swim, not many African people can swim, he did very well and manage to get across the pool on his own.
Everyone got out between 2.30pm-3pm and we headed into the posh hotel where they had a chinese restaurant. The plan was that the group would spend their remaining Cedi on a chinese meal. We explained delicately that Tim-Afrik members were welcome to join us but everyone was paying for their own food and drink. Sani joined us, so did Sarah.
The food was lovely, we had a private room as we were a large group, with a spinning table. Everyone kept putting their cameras onto the table and switching to video mode as it spun past everyones faces - it looked great!
People said what their favourite parts of the holiday were. Sani said he was thrilled to be included in our Chinese meal and was gushing with happiness.
We headed back to the hotel where all of Tim-Afrik had gathered to say goodbye. It was actually quite emotional. I noticed that Tim and Derrik were a little off, I still think they don't quite understand that we cannot afford to pay for everything for everyone all the time. This put a little dampner on things.
There were some tears and we headed off to the airport, a member of Tim-Afrik came in each taxi to make sure we were ok.
Final goodbyes and then we all had to pile into the airport, they weren't allowed to come in with us. We had to wait for several hours after check in, but this was broken up by moving from room to room. Several people spent their last cedi on the duty free shop and soon we were boarding the plane.
We had a stop in Trippoli for some time. Everyone was really tired and had not slept well on the plane over night. Trippoli is not particularly nice, well the airport isn't. We felt very sectioned off from the Arab and African people and were made to wait while these people were allowed ahead of us - this was possibly heightened by paranoia from lack of sleep!
It was great to be on the final flight home and soon we were back at Gatwick!
Many slept on the way home on the minibus, some were reminiscing already and everyone was looking forward to seeing families! We got in a little bit late, we said goodbye after an amazing experience and headed home...to bed!
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