A little cup of everything that's wrong with the world

Room with a view

So here's a couple of pictures from my new place. The 'New Democrat' newspaper here has a pictorial feature every day that always finishes with 'this too is Liberia'. That kinda sums up my feelings around this apartment, it's kinda a little surreal...

Anyway - view from the ground.....


And the view from up my stairs. This one was taken on a Sunday morning and the beach was deserted, but most days and especially Friday and Saturday there's a lot of people down there. A weird mix of extremely white European UN guys in speedos, wheelbarrow salesmen and Liberian young people just hanging out and doing the things that young people do on the beach.
Incidentally you'd think with a sky looking like that I'd take a jacket with me to church huh? Yup me too.

Well

A couple of weeks back the well that we'd been drawing water from by bucket got a pump fitted into it. This is what the crew from Water of Life Liberia pulled out of the well once they'd drained out much of the old water.mmmmmmmmm. I'm still trying to figure out if it tastes better or not now that it's chlorinated.....

Residency

I've been completely uninspired about blogging in the last week (nope not a good start). I keep on having random little thoughts about stuff when I'm out and about, but lack the mental retention to bring it into the office with me once we have internet and electricity (whenever that may be). Anyway, thought that I might as well break that trend when I got my passport back today from immigration with a photo for everyone who ever wanted residency in Liberia for a year - yusssss.