The hub’s mom, Julie, came to visit last week. It was our first married-couple parental visit. I can only imagine that’s somewhat stressful in normal life, but combined with us living in a post-conlict environment, it made for an interesting trip. She got to experience our love of the Wii and movie watching, as well as checking out a few local restaurants, the farmers’ market and the fish delivery guy. I’m hoping she’s not holding the visit against us (Julie, we warned you it’s a pricey flight to a place where there’s not much to do), but I have a feeling she had a reasonably acceptable time. She always said she wanted to see what our life is like in Liberia and I think it’s safe to say she got that in spades.
Posted 1 year ago
Paying to read my favorite paper? Blasphemous.
I knew this day was coming; I’ve spent months trying to come to terms with my conflicted feelings about it. Still, I just can’t quite fathom the concept of paying to read the news online.
Posted 1 year ago
Attempted synchronized cannonballs. Aww, Robertsport, you almost make me like the beach.
More pics to come soon (from this weekend’s beach trip, last week’s mother-in-law visit, and who knows what else…it’s been a while ;)).
Posted 1 year ago
A glimpse of our trip to Harper. The full album is slowly uploading to Facebook…
Posted 1 year ago
Going Up Country
The hubs and I leave this weekend for a week of voter registration monitoring in Maryland County, along Liberia’s border with Ivory Coast. We have a two day, 18-hour drive to get out there, which is slightly crazy considering Liberia is only about the size of Tennessee. We’re staying in Harper, which is straight down the coast from Monrovia, but luckily for us, there isn’t a road that connects the two. Instead, we’re going this way — green is Day 1 of driving and purple is Day 2:
Posted 1 year ago
charity:water is one of the hubs and my favorite non-profit organizations. We’re fans of their polished marketing, and far more importantly, their awesome work. Check out this video highlighting their efforts in Liberia. And feel free to donate.
Posted 1 year ago
I can’t decide if it’s more amusing that I live in the type of place where for $15 a person will come into your home and give you a pedicure or that at $15 I’ll complain about being overcharged.
Posted 1 year ago
Ameriika
The past six months in Liberia have helped me to love my country more than ever before. Obviously, I have always been a fan of democracy, liberty and freedom, but there’s a few other things I didn’t appropriately appreciate previously. We’ve been on the ground in Chicago for about three hours awaiting our next connection; here’s a sampling of the things I’ve been most excited about thus far:
Posted 1 year ago
Feeling Festive
This weekend was all about the holiday festivities, which was slightly weird since it is always about 87-degrees with 95% humidity outside (seriously). Anyway, we hit up the Embassy’s Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair, a holiday concert, and a new Chinese restaurant (shout out to our Jewish readers, picked your Christmas Day Chinese place yet?).
Posted 1 year ago
Mark’s Famous
The hubs gets quoted in the newspapers out here fairly frequently. Pretty much anytime the Consular Section announces anything he’ll be quoted. I’ve actually seen articles that simply read “Mark says…” with no last name, no title, just Mark. He’s got some visibility for sure, but things recently moved to a new level.
Hi, I'm Megan. I just finished grad school, got married, and moved to Liberia.
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