May 16th
Location: Monrovia

Today I slept in and had three cups of coffee which is so not wise but at least I’m awake enough to write a blog post, so that is a plus. I started a blog so that my family could feel close to me while I’m in Liberia I have struggled to maintain the blog but my family keeps me motivated : ) I know I promised a sentence a day but I am recommitting to a paragraph a week, so you get more but just less often : )

Vacation Bible School is starting up again and I have been put in charge of it this year. The location as remote as you can get, located deep in the Gbarpolu County, specifically the Goun’wolaila District is where the VBS team will be. I use the word remote because the communities we are going to be working in are completely inaccessible by road, one either walks/canoes in or is helicopter in and out. It is about a 3 to 4 hour walk to the main community in the district and then about another hour walk to the different surrounding communities. Tomorrow morning the VBS team and I are flying into the main community and then will spend the next 3 days walking to each of the surrounding communities to explain to the local council that VBS is ready to start. I have not been able to leave Monrovia for the last month so the idea of being in a remote community couldn’t sound more appealing, sometimes I wonder what I will do if I ever move back to the states for adventure : ) Speaking of the States I got my plane ticket to come home for a month! I will be home from July 15 to Aug 13. This also means that I will officially be living in Liberia at least until July 1st 2012! Wow it’s been a while since I could say where I would be in a years’ time!