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"Jue!" "Im Not Your Jue!" 2

A travel blog entry by gabbyshinagle

... laughed. I was also informed of the meaning behind ‘jue.’ When they call out ‘jue,’ what they are actually saying is ‘juice!’ They refer to a fine woman as juice, because she is sweet like juice! Oh Africa . . .

Some more interesting facts I have noticed:

1. Liberians love to use abbreviations for every little group or organization. Perhaps it makes them seem more official, ...

"Jue!" "Im Not Your Jue!"

A travel blog entry by gabbyshinagle

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... is a 65% decrease in voter participation from the first election. This is how Ellen won the 90%--only by default.



There has been a new story developing about what happened during 'Bloody Monday.’ This is Ellen’s side. One soldier from the peace-keeping militia threw a tear gas can into the crowd. The can fell, but never exploded. So one of the protestors took it and threw it back at the armed militia. It hit one of the soldiers in the chest and then decided ...

My Amazing African-American Birthday!

A travel blog entry by gabbyshinagle

... written by Mr. Froymann addressed to CDC pres and vice pres, Winston Tubman and George Weah, that explains their qualification to run in the Run-Off Elections this month. In this letter, Froymann stated that it was UP who had 32% of the votes! He either made a typing error, or the truth came through that he had switched the votes where he gave CDC’s number to UP and vice versa. CDC has decided to boycott the run-off election and withdraw ...

Gadhafi has been captured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)

A travel blog entry by gabbyshinagle

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... consider it a pleasant experience, but nonetheless, Ima be ok and can brag about how B.A. I am later ;)

We are also currently in election season. There was already one election earlier this month, but this is how politics work here: there are 23 officially recognized political parties in Liberia, with 2 parties taking the vast majority—the Unity Party and the Congress Democratic for Change. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ...

The past 6 weeks!

A travel blog entry by gabbyshinagle

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... butter—not as smooth or sweet, or delicious, but it still works—to which we add onions, tomatoes, and seasoning. The soup takes about 30 minutes to cook and then everything is ready to dish out and eat. As you can see, if we decide to cook instead of going out, it takes about 2 or more hours to eat. So if we’re cooking, we begin cooking before we get hungry so that we have food to eat WHEN we get hungry. Also, very big difference from America where you can ...