Monthly Archives: May 2008

In my last post I ended by saying we were out, or running out of Cheese and Ice Cream. Our Ice Cream is bought in bulk and mostly used for Birthday and Leaving parties in their respective departments. And mostly for a quick desert during fellowship time after community meeting on Thursday meetings.

Here in Liberia, Ice cream is definitely a luxury…or at least this brand is! (Click for a closer look!)
Thats right folks, its $25 twenty five dollars, United States Dollars!!!

Credit to finding-joy.blogspot.com for… READ MORE!

As a follow up or continuation of a previous post (Sea Monkey & Fufu) we will discuss Banku & Kenkey.

Banku and Kenkey are two more Fufu-like staples from Western Africa, served with a soup, stew, or sauce. They are particularly popular in Ghana. Both are usually made from ground corn (maize), although most of the Ghanaian people I have met say that only Banku is made from a mixture of maize and grated Cassava tuber. Kenkey is usually… READ MORE!

While reading another blog by a nurse whose post was about kids on the ward, she goes on to explain about a little boy, Alfred, shared his Fufu and Sea Monkey with her…(it *Sea Monkey* was not the focus of the blog, the kids were). But I (being the food person I am) zeroed in on the Sea Monkey.
*Sea Monkey* according to my Monrovia friends is a large fish (closely related to tuna or dolphin/or may even be tuna or dolphin – this is speculative) That is very dark in color and bloody.

And just to confirm it I asked our… READ MORE!

I suppose you could call me a ‘guest blogger’ since it seems that its so long between posts of my wifes more exciting life in the Ward or ICU.

On my end, the days started getting long last week when we found out the crane for lifting our trash out of the kitchen (because we use big metal bins, you have to imagine a lot more trash from dining room and galley than those few bags you have at home) would be out of service till it could be fixed (and no one was available to do it over… READ MORE!

Its been a busy time here since Friday and we are still waiting on the crane to be fixed before we can haul all the trash out in bulk instead of run it all up 2 or 3 decks to the empty bins on deck 8.

We have acquired a galley person in the salads section, and a ‘loaner’ from crew services…and from time to time I can talk my old (she’s young) friend Tatyana from Brazil into doing a little galley work if she can get a babysitter!  She used to work with me on another ship years ago, but… READ MORE!

My friend Alison is leaving tomorrow. I will miss her. We have had many adventures together. We often went to the Royal Hotel for breakfast on our days off. It made me feel like my life was more normal than it really is, since I live on a ship in Africa.

Alison has been at the center of fashion at the tailor, and has inspired us have him make us different thing. We share a love of Anthropologie and have brought him many torn out pages of… READ MORE!