first wknd in monrovia - it was great! saturday morning the energy program contractors took me out to see some of the project sites from the Emergency Power Program (EPP). was pretty neat to see the generator that had been put up last year, as well as the old power plant in the city that was no longer functioning and would soon become scrap meta...

this was one day full of meetings, meetings, and more meetings... but pretty interesting. learned about a lot about USAID's work and the needs/situations in a lot of sectors. crazy how in almost every sector, the system seems completely broken... i'll have to write more later on it... i think i finally understood what it means to have a society ...

"Praise God, thank you Jesus," he said when got into the car. "Praise God, thank you Jesus," he said again when he stopped the car and got out. John Kpewoan has good reason to thank God over and over again when he gets in and out of his pickup here in Liberia. Monrovia is far and away the scene of the most chaotic auto dance that I've been privi...