Sierra Leone

Here's some pictures of Sierra Leone. The trip was interesting. The people there have nothing. Extreme poverty looks pretty much the same in any country. The only difference in Sierra Leone was that the everyone you see is in poverty. You can't drive to the nice side of town. There isn't one. There are a few reach people, mostly foreigners, 95% of the Sierra Leonians live in shacks with no electricity, water, etc. The country side is beautiful. It's basically a rain forest climate with a rainy season and a dry season. We were there at the beginning of the rainy season.

Looking down Freetown from the embassy

About 1,000,000 people live in Freetown

The white building on the hill is a picture of the U.S. embassy. It's illegal to take a picture of it...at least the local police don't like it.

Waterfall (duh)

They have beautiful beaches.

One of the better paved roads


In town

Decisions

I've decided that I go to church. What I mean is that I decided that from now on I am going to be the type of person who goes to church. In the two years that I've been married my wife and I have been to church less than 10 times. We went a few times right a first. We tried out a couple of different places. We just didn't keep going.

We finally decided that we'd had enough of not going to church. So now I go. I go every Sunday. So far I've been two Sundays in a row. I think I actually like it now. I even go to Sunday school.

I realize that my decision to go to church isn't really that interesting. It's significant to me though. I think this is the first time I'm going to church without guilt or the accountability of another. My wife works every other Sunday, so twice a month I'm going by myself.

Well, school starts in about three weeks. I'm dreading that. It's my last year though. I'll post some Africa pictures later.