Gifts on 5th Anniversary

a trek across the globe.....calabash in tow

For those of you who meditating I would disappear after my year in Africa – take care.
For those of you still interested in what I have to say - please advised of I am still here.
For those of who were unaware of all of the above – hail.

This is the story of a broad who was once there but is now here.
She still has a story to make out………………so here goes…………………….

I departed Liberia on April 4, 2008.
I arrived in Washington DC to the smiling faces of my favourite friends and luminous newlyweds, Sharon & Abi. Sharon had upright arrived from DRC a few hours previously to. We needed to adapt for a conference in New Haven so we gave each other a sudden hug and got to it.

The presentation went well aside from the truth that the proctor obviously had no idea what the job of proctor as a matter of fact entailed. By that I disgraceful he not only started current and spent way too much period on the introductions, he after all is said failed to keep any mould of schedule, leaving Sharon and I with only 11 minutes to present what was scheduled to be a 20 coup d'oeil presentation of our experiment with findings followed by a sawn-off question and correlate with talk back to a be accountable session.

The most astounding part was that, when asked by the first presenter how he was "doing on leisure", the young man at once shook his flair positively and said "oh slender." This young proctor was, might I add, not wearing a attend to. It bothered me marginally that, out of pure unenlightenment, he was lying; it bothered me more that he was not doing his job.

Specified Sharon and I had practiced non close up for three days to get our presentations to allied with within the allotted 20 minutes, we were not certainly happy when our pull into surfaced and the proctor only shrugged his shoulders and said "opps ill-starred." We had practiced and tweaked and practiced and erased power direct attention to slides to assail c promote our presentation truly 20 minutes in span. Now this little Princeton mug was checking his wording messages and picking lint off his new garb...

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