Monrovia

So, busy past couple of days! I spent the last week in Freetown working in my office at FBC (my first office was at a college I don't attend....), running errands (mostly at the bank), and doing lots of "last night" stuff: Paddy's/Atlantic/Sports Bar, lunch for the family (tuna pasta salad), and dinner with Edgar's parents at Eden. Overall, a really great last week!

Today I woke up at 5:30 to get the ferry to Lungi for my flight to Monrovia. The ferry was nowhere near as crazy as the Banjul-Barra ferry in the Gambia. Met a nice woman working for a UK-based NGO, so had someone to chat with on the ride and the flight here. We took a 19 passenger prop jet: old school. It only takes an hour to get here, and then it took another hour for the 19 of us to go through immigration and luggage collection.

Monrovia seems pretty cool. Very different from Freetown, which is hilly and has winding English roads. Liberian license plates look just like American ones, and with wider streets, crazy humidity, and the fact that it's totally flat - built on a marsh - it's kind of like being back in New Jersey! I'm staying in Sinkor, which is south on the Monrovia penninsula. Haven't been around to check things out yet, but I'll let you know when I do.