I haven’t asked much about the war. It seems to me to be in poor taste. I know about the extremes and it seems that most people have in some way overcome what they saw/experienced, left so as to remain safe, or just don’t like talking about it. It’s been 6 years now since the […]
Read more "So it’s time to talk about the war"This was a short trip on Thursday with one of the support staff for DEN-L (Matt, it’s the one who drove you to the waterfall, he’s talking about going there again soon!). He showed me around (this time in a truck but the drive was equally as fascinating, just no sense of danger). We went […]
Read more "Gbarnga touring"Everyone has been very curious and nice to me. Sometimes I am afraid they’re being overly nice. It goes back to colonialism. I haven’t been able to wrap my head around white people in Liberia. Liberia was never colonized (by Europeans). It never had a large population of white people show up and take anything […]
Read more "Day 2 in Africa."The office: Tuesday, my first full day in Africa, had many surprises. I worked all day, most of which was just e mailing family and friends on a very slow internet connection. Posted a couple blog posts (I write them and post them later). I did a little research into granting agencies and tried to […]
Read more "That was Monday"Yes! Success! I think I actually said that out loud in the tiny baggage pick up. Went through customs, bought a cell phone ($50 for phone and $25 worth of minutes. I can call the states but my questions about how the cell phone worked went unanswered by the saleslady.) And ran straight into the […]
Read more "Panic. Pause. Panic. Is that my bag?"The Brussels airport was not as small as my chatty single serving friend implied. She was my seat buddy, we had three seats with just the two of us in them so I had plenty of space to toss and turn. My seat mate, Tidy (not her real name, it’s more complicated than that but […]
Read more "Day 2, from Brussels to Monrovia."I left the DC area Saturday, the 6th, after barbecue and beer with friends and family. It was a good note to leave on, especially since it wasn’t specifically about me leaving as a gathering. As Shauna put it, no one tells you that one of the hazards of international work is the binging of […]
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Ally Krupar 