@jhimmel

Dr. T, my brother’s girlfriend @Trang, captured the attention of many scurrilous youths. She taught them the Chicken Song, Do Re Mi, and several similarly savory sing-alongs. She a…

**My family and I** returned to Liberia in February. **Ma, Pa, Dr. H, and Dr. Le**, as they were so lovingly referred to. They had long planned to visit me and airfare was locked i…

Peace Corps withdrew all their volunteers worldwide some weeks back. **This is a first in history**, and the trajectory of the Peace Corps is uncertain especially as governments cu…

## Forming a new form of Volunteer Enter Kristen Grauer-Gray – our tireless leader. For half-a-decade she trained Liberian teachers on how to bring classrooms to life using local,…

If you remember [a piece of information from many months ago](https://peakd.com/africa/@jhimmel/here-and-there), phenomenal. If not; I and a baker’s dozen of volunteers were forced…

Long post... lots to catch up on _Begin Journal Entry_ Nails in the coffin. Buried, and final. Angel died last night. She almost reached 3 years old. Every day I spent with her, p…

__“I'm down at parking and the guy here says car is the way to go,__ should be 5 hours the way the road's looking," I relayed to Dan, a former US Marine who disarmed IEDs for a hal…

__Round 1__ – In the culinary corner, weighing in at 1 pound 12 inches, the most cliched crustacean in the ocean, the heavily armored Rock Lobster! Accompanied by his loyal henchma…

__Adventure is not excluded from the home__ – some adventures take place in within a 5-foot radius of the kitchen. Several culinary rendezvous have been nothing but adventurous. It…

__To evaluate my 10th and 11th grade students__ I am employing Performance-Based Grading tactics – a favorite among Peace Corps teachers in small-to-medium sized classrooms. It is,…

At my school __I am responsible for teaching 10th and 11th grade Physics as well as 10th grade Biology__. My classes are not large – only 20 students in each. We meet in the aftern…

_One quiet morning_, my friend James and I went on a mission to harvest bamboo from a stand deep in the mangroves up River Trehn. He needed the reef to build a nursery for his newl…

*A week before arriving becoming the [White Man in Grebo Land](https://steemit.com/africa/@jhimmel/a-spicy-welcome)*... **Our final nights of training** reunited us in the dorms o…

__Driving to site in the all-terrain Land Cruiser__ was a bumpy two hours during which we drove through two streams and over one by way of a wood-plank bridge. It was quite engagin…

The Sunday morning after America's independence day, we grouped into cars to roll downslope to the coastal capital city of Liberia. Monrovia it's called - named after James Monroe,…

… smells, temperature, noise, interactions. Life is fresh, exciting, and waiting to be explored. Time here is already moving fast, but each day brings a new scene or friend. My in…

Liberia's capital city of Monrovia sees the highest rainfall of any in the world. These rains cast inland to feed some of the greenest scenes I have known. Here is my entry for #Th…

In the village of Sinyea, Liberia - a kilometer north of the blooming Phebe Junction - the young children have no reservations and few obligations. Stiff cement homes are set in th…

6 Degrees North of the Equator in the West African country of Liberia. 24 hours of flights for 27 months in the unknown. Luggage checked and expectations set: 50 lbs on the dot and…