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Travel Blogs from Monrovia
"Jue!" "Im Not Your Jue!" 2
... And most have a flashlight, which really comes in handy when the sun goes down!
7. There are two American companies that have factories stationed in Liberia. There is a Coco-Cola factory by my community and a Firestone Tire factory in a town cleverly called Firestone. Liberia is rich in many resources—rubber being a main one. One thing I do not understand about Africa is how some of the West African countries ...
My Amazing African-American Birthday!
My sister will be coming to visit me here during her Christmas break! The first thing she asked was "can we go to the beach?" haha so I think we will be making more than a few trips to the beach while she is here. I have only been to the beach three times since being here, and only once did we swim. The other times we were sitting outside a restaurant eating and just admiring the ocean view. But it will be ridiculously hot and humid when she gets here ...
Gadhafi has been captured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
... hours later, I had a fever. Once you get a fever, it’s a no-brainer here that you have malaria. I went to the hospital for the test and the nurse brought me into the consultation room.
“You have malaria.” She told me with a routined tone as if she were telling me that malaria were a head cold.
“Uhhhhh . . . am I going to be ok? Cause that like, kills my people.” I told her.
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The past 6 weeks!
... and Anxiety. They also have an impressive portfolio of programs they had implemented in the past in both Liberia and Ghana.
Last week, they took me to one of the many slums outside central Monrovia. It was a relatively small community known as Logantown that is inundated with drug addicts and extremely unsanitary living conditions. We met a group of addicts, both men and women. There were very differences between the individuals. They all had ...
Time To Count Some Serious Blessings
... what it means to be “strong.” And clearly, they put me to shame, substantially!
All the events of this day had me down on my knees, counting all my blessings. I hope everyone counts theirs today, too, for our blessings, at the very least, deserve immense gratitude.
This was definitely a difficult day for me, but definitely not one that I would take back. As much as I hated it, I was only imagining what happened and witnessing the outcomes, while they ...