Gaston arrived in Kamina as planned on Wednesday. To the team's delight, we were told that we would be going to the village of Nyembo. Gaston needed to pick up a mother and her sick two month-old child and take them to the hospital in Lubumbashi. Nyembo is 130 kilometers to the east of Kamina and has a clinic/hospital. I heard about Nyembo several years ago and had hoped to go there someday. Amazingly, Gaston was able to fit everything into the airplane but we wondered how we would fit two additional people into the airplane. Gaston's ability to negotiate space amazed us. Gaston left the extra plane seat in Kamina. Once in Nyembo, I would sit on the Dayton's suitcase and use it as an airplane seat with another case as the backrest. I would still be able to use the seatbelt. As we neared the village, the countryside became mountainous with several bodies of water. I wondered if the landing strip was just as narrow as the landing strip in the village of Kabongo and it was! When we arrived, we were surrounded by a sea of children. Gaston flew the plane directly from the dirt airstrip into a hanger across from the clinic. The people were so beautiful and friendly. The children escorted us to the clinic and we received a grand tour of the facility.
