We are sitting on our veranda in our new home in Liberia. It’s 29°C and we are enjoying a cooling sea breeze. We are watching a pair of multi-coloured lizards flirting with each other on the branches of the pine tree in front of us. We arrived in Liberia on the 23rd November at 5.00 in the morning having visited Casablanca and Freetown airports on the way. The second evening meal on the plane was served at 1.00am in the morning and was probably extra to our needs… We sat beside the team from The Times newspaper who were coming out here with Hugh Bonneville, an actor from Downton Abbey fame. They are here to prepare a piece for their Christmas charity appeal.
We have met a lot of people in the short time we have been here and remembering names and putting them to faces is already proving a challenge. We went to a traditional Thanksgiving supper with some of our new American friends, also with SIM. No Turkey but great chicken and of course pumpkin pie.
Our home is lovely; it has great potential but has been empty for a little while and is need of a little tlc. Work is calling and meetings are waiting but we need to sort a few essentials in the house first, like buying a fridge and a bed etc. We ate our porridge this morning to the sound of rousing African choruses wafting over from the next door compound, a sound so familiar from our time in Swaziland. It’s great to have a sense of being in a place where we believe God wants us to be.
Thinking of all our friends and relatives in the UK … has it stopped snowing yet?
Great to hear from you and to see your photos. We trust you settle in quickly and enjoy all the opportunities and challenges of your new assignment.
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