People and Places

Emmanuel Flomo is the Samaritan's Purse driver who was assigned to the ABC project last year, so I worked side by side with him for 6 months, driving up and down from Monrovia to Yekepa many times. He is by far my favorite driver at SP, and love spending time with him and his family. He wrote me an email while I was home for Christmas, telling me that he and his wife had their 5th child, a little girl named Faith. Last week we had to make a quick trip to Yekepa, so we were able to stop at Emmanuel's house and meet his new daughter. Isn't she cute??

Emmanuel, Rebecca and Baby Faith (3 months)

Our staffhouse in Monrovia is the only house on campus with a barbed wire fence around it, which has not looked the prettiest, but has been very safe for all of us. The problem comes when you are right on the beach, and the salt air eats away at the metal so badly. It got to a point where the barbed wire crumbled in your hand, and one finger could break the poles of the fence. So it did not surprise us when one morning we awoke to our fence down on the ground.

The guys are busy reconstructing a new security fence now, with the new guidelines that ELWA has put in place. Many changes continue to be made here on campus!

A couple weekends ago, I went with a few staff members to one of our favorite get aways... about 2 hours from Monrovia. This sign hangs in their restaurant, but we think it should hang on our ELWA beach instead!

The small catch the fisherman pulled in at Robertsport.

One night I was heading to my room to go to bed. My door is a bit warped, so it doesn't close easily. As I leaned my body against the door to close it, something very large moved on the door, not too far away from my face. It was this lovely critter you see above! I know deep down that these wall spiders are harmless, BUT THEY FREAK ME OUT! This particular one was bigger than my palm! And they move incredibly fast.

So, there I stood, frozen.... everyone else in my house was in bed and sleeping... and I was frozen in my room with this massive spider. I debated about getting the guard from outside to come in and kill it for me, but didn't want to look weak... so I went to find the insect spray.

After pretty much spraying the whole can in the direction of the fast moving spider, he ran under my light fixture, which is above my bed. I turned my head for one second to check something, and when I looked back, he was gone! Now I was really frozen.... was he in my bed? behind my bed? in my shoes? under the light? Then I saw him... on my sandals beside my bed, curling up b/c the spray finally got to him. I can just imagine the show I was giving for anyone who could see me through my window!

The next morning I told the guard about it and he just laughed and said "next time I will come to your rescue madam!" I will remember that!