Greetings and Happy Easter, from Monrovia! I am sorry to have to miss Easter with everyone! I missed passover as well. I didn't plan my dates too well, this time. Liberia is about 60% Christian and about 40% Muslim (according to our driver), so the city is pretty much closed down for Easter. Even the grocery store is closed, so we were forced to come to Mamba point hotel, one of the prettiest spots in the city, to have dinner :). I am sitting on the balcony overlooking the ocean as I type.
We were "on call" this weekend, so needed to go in and round on kids in the mornings. Fortunately, no one was too sick, but we see amazing things on a daily basis. There was a measles outbreak in on of the surrounding counties, so there were 2 kids with measles on the floor. Only about 60% of the kids are vaccinated against it, so they can have big epidemics. I took a picture of one of the kids to show to my parents who don't like to give their kids vaccines what it looks like.
Yesterday afternoon, we went to this beautiful resort near Monrovia called Kendaja. They allow people to come and sit on their beach and use their pool for $5.00. The beach is beautiful. The water temp must have been about 80 degrees! We were swimming and diving in the ocean. Quite fun! While we were there, a wedding was taking place, and they had hired African drummers and traditional Senegalese dancers to perform at the wedding. They sent them over to entertain us as well. It was fabulous. I will try to upload some pictures.
So the theme here seems to be very hard, challenging, emotionally draining work followed by great relaxation at beautiful little oases. Next weekend we are hoping to get back to Robertsport, the little surfing community that we went to last year.
Hope everyone is well......
Trish
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