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This Year in Sierra Leone: August 2008
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Saturday, August 23, 2008. Living in Makeni is kinda like swimming the length of a pool underwater. It’s a fun challenge, but after a while you just gotta come up for air. Itching for a breather, we took a weekend at Sierra Leone’s old faithful: the beach. August is the rainiest month of the rainy season, but we didn’t care. We just wanted out. On arrival in the tiny fishing village at Mama Beach, we saw the wooden sign nailed to a tree. On the same trip, we went to mass and th...
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This Year in Sierra Leone: Bintumaniacs
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Climbing the second highest mountain in West Africa during the rainy season without a tent or a plan didn't seem like the brightest idea. I went into the trip with a healthy dose of pessimism, but we did indeed scale Mount Bintumani (6,000 feet) - bottom to top in one long day. My victory dance after the upward march. Then some dudes were waiting for us on top of a big rock, and one of them, 'The Director,' was the only one who knew the way to the summi...
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This Year in Sierra Leone: Deep Thoughts...
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Monday, July 28, 2008. Sierra Leone is the color of a baseball field. Betcha no one else has noticed that. As it turns out, burning trash is a great way to pass the time. If you are a radio station and you play the same 5-second sound bite more than twice in a row, I will not listen to you. So you have two free hands, but you'd still rather carry that spiral notebook on your head. Really? At least that's what CNN told me. Is that Michael Jordan? July 29, 2008 at 2:04 AM. Subscr...
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This Year in Sierra Leone: April 2008
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Friday, April 18, 2008. A poda-poda or truck in Sierra Leone isn't complete without a slogan painted on front and back. Many are religious, some are public service announcements, others are just plain whack. Loose You Face (smile! God's Time Is The Best. All Eyes On Me. Relax, God Is In Control. Nor Vex (Don't be angry). In God We Trust. God Bless The Owner. To Be A Man Is Not Easy. Tuesday, April 8, 2008. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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This Year in Sierra Leone: Moyamba Mamba?
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Thursday, September 25, 2008. On a visit to our fellow volunteer Dale, who’s been marooned in Moyamba all year, we got a taste of small-town Sierra Leone, where life moves at an even more glacial pace than in Makeni. But that’s what made it great. Me, Helen, Diya, Dale, James, and a bamboo backyard bench. 8221; “Stole my mom's laminator again.”. My story about the lack of morphine in Sierra Leone aired on a public radio show called World Vision Report. Listen here.
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This Year in Sierra Leone: November 2007
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Sunday, November 25, 2007. Do you believe in the Catholic Church? And so on. All the nuns sitting next to me were in shock. Later we discovered they were actually saying 'Ndo,' which means 'Yes' in the Limba language. Whew. Tuesday, November 20, 2007. This is my house. Thought you might like to see it. Also, if you feel the need to send me anything, well - I wish you luck. The postal service is terrible. But your best bet is to send it to me here:. Freetown, Sierra Leone. It wa...
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This Year in Sierra Leone: June 2008
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Climbing the second highest mountain in West Africa during the rainy season without a tent or a plan didn't seem like the brightest idea. I went into the trip with a healthy dose of pessimism, but we did indeed scale Mount Bintumani (6,000 feet) - bottom to top in one long day. My victory dance after the upward march. Then some dudes were waiting for us on top of a big rock, and one of them, 'The Director,' was the only one who knew the way to the summi...
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This Year in Sierra Leone: December 2007
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Wednesday, December 19, 2007. The Impact of War. Last weekend a journalism student named Alhassan took me to Kambia, which is about four hours from Makeni on a terrible excuse for an international highway, near the border with Guinea. I stayed at the Catholic mission where Alhassan used to be an altar boy, in a house with two Italian priests who have been in Sierra Leone for decades. These kids are playing soccer in the street, with another reminder of the war in the background.
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This Year in Sierra Leone: September 2008
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Thursday, September 25, 2008. On a visit to our fellow volunteer Dale, who’s been marooned in Moyamba all year, we got a taste of small-town Sierra Leone, where life moves at an even more glacial pace than in Makeni. But that’s what made it great. Me, Helen, Diya, Dale, James, and a bamboo backyard bench. 8221; “Stole my mom's laminator again.”. My story about the lack of morphine in Sierra Leone aired on a public radio show called World Vision Report. Listen here.
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This Year in Sierra Leone: This is Africa
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This Year in Sierra Leone. Monday, May 26, 2008. And back in Makeni, the rainy season is on its way and lightning struck my laptop, killing it on the spot. Sigh. All I can do is shrug it off and remember what they say: T.I.A. - This is Africa. Such a sad thing to read; here, where headlines talk about $4 gas and extra pay for baggage on airlines.we sometimes do not even begin to fathom what hardships really are. Tia C. May 28, 2008 at 10:12 PM. May 31, 2008 at 7:44 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
