• jhimmel (55)in #liberia • 5 years ago

  Escapades during the Family Visit to Liberia

  A collection of experiences from my family's visit to Liberia

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• jhimmel (55)in #liberia • 5 years ago

  Sharing Families

  Bringing my biological half to meet my Liberian cultural half.

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  • - Author $1.92
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• jhimmel (55)in #liberia • 5 years ago

  The Liberian Banking Crisis

  The Crisis before COVID-19 that shook Liberia up.

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  • - Author $3.10
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• jhimmel (55)in #education • 5 years ago

  A Root must Touch Soil to Grow

  A new way of learning in Liberia, West Africa. From the branches down.

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  • - Author $21.25
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• jhimmel (55)in #liberia • 5 years ago

  To the west we Wander

  The layout of my second site as a Peace Corps Volunteer

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  • - Author $1.39
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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 6 years ago

  Here and There

  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…

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  • - Author $0.34
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• jhimmel (55)in #hiking • 6 years ago

  To the Roof of Liberia

  “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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #squid • 6 years ago

  Culinary Adventures pt. 2

  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…

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  • - Author $0.72
  • - Curators $0.23

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• jhimmel (55)in #insect • 6 years ago

  Culinary Encounters Pt. 1

  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…

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  • - Author $1.08
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• jhimmel (55)in #peace • 6 years ago

  On the Scholastic Front...

  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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 6 years ago

  Educational Entrance

  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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 6 years ago

  Upriver for Reef

  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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 6 years ago

  Standing Trainee, Sitting Volunteer

  A week before arriving becoming the White Man in Grebo Land ... Our final nights of training reunited us in the dorms of Doe Palace. We embraced the close quarters…

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 6 years ago

  A Spicy Welcome

  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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 7 years ago

  On the Pepper Coast

  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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 7 years ago

  The honeymoon month...

  … 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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #thursdaygreen • 7 years ago

  Green living all around me #ThursdayGreen

  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 #Thursdaygreen.

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 7 years ago

  The Children of Sinyea

  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…

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• jhimmel (55)in #africa • 7 years ago

  Here it begins… Peace Corps Liberia

  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…

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  • - Author $1.29
  • - Curators $0.41

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