Monthly Archives: November 2008

On Wednesday my team of faithful Bible Study Leaders piled into Land Rovers and headed out to New Matadi, like we do every Wednesday, and arrived to our usual welcoming crew. Most of the children from the orphanage and neighborhood come out and greet us by name and escort us into the compound. Usually the compound yard is bare except of children playing. This week when we walked down the crazy cement steps and onto the orange dirt yard we were faced with a circle of chairs. Enough for the boys and the girls altogether. Instead of 50 children playing… READ MORE!

We are so blessed on the wards and in the OR to work with surgeons that really, genuinely care about their patients. It gives me great joy to see Dr. Gary round on his patients. He takes time to answer the patients questions and he shows them that he truly cares. He has been on the ship for over 20 years and knows the cultural implications of West Africa. He thinks about those things when issues come up and he teaches those of us who are not aware of these foreign thoughts, practices and ways of life. He is kind… READ MORE!

Let me first start by saying I asked permission from Naill Harbison one of the contributors from the blog over at ifoods.tv to repost this here.  Naill has put together 25 reasons he would never own a restaurant and I would have to say 99% of the reasons are the SAME reason why I struggle with thoughts of owning my own.

Just last week (or was it 2 weeks ago?) I emailed a friend (thanks for the info Bobby M. !) about zoning issues and building.  (Bobby’s one of those architectural type genius’s)  But before I… READ MORE!

Just a quick word about this – a little over two weeks left to contribute to the Liberia Fund!!!

We will have a great ‘Goodbye’ lunch of African food cooked out of our galley on December the 5th which will officially be the last day local Liberians or Visitors will be able to come aboard before we pack up and make plans to leave.

I want to thank our generous contributors – so far this is the list- (keeping you mostly anonymous so people on the internet will not track you down and hound you for money)… READ MORE!

Last Friday night our Queens lounge was transformed into a Coffee House.  My dear friend Selina and I did the baking and Karoline did the ambiance and that room was transformed. It was so nice to hang out… READ MORE!