Culture Experienced

In this episode Harry finally receives his pay. The family has dinner with missionaries on the compound and learn that Father Vincent is headed to Liberia. 

In this episode Harry talks about dry season agriculture and how the school provides their report cards to students. Joan writes home and discusses going to the market while Ya Marie recovers. Both Harry and Joan have enjoyed their African weight loss program and are down considerably from when they departed.

School is starting back up but it takes time for students to arrive. There are celebrations in town as young women are prepared for the tribal version of "womanhood" where they go off to the bush for female genital mutilation and training. Finally, it's time for Joan to make the doughnuts.

Harry writes home and describes our New Year's eve activities. Ross reads his letter to the Tooth Fairy.

Joan writes home to her parents about our holiday travels and adventures. The family travels to Medina where we eat with over 20 members of the village. 

Harry writes home with detail of our experience with the Christmas holiday in Freetown and Kamakwie. 

Merry Christmas from Culture Experienced. In this short episode Harry writes home with a Christmas message.

The family has traveled to the beach for some holiday rest and relaxation. Joan and Harry describe the trip down and arriving at the beautiful Sierra Leone beaches. The family also gets to see the national dance troupe at a local hotel.

Harry writes home about giving blood during a C-Section. School has ended for the semester and we are preparing for our trip to Freetown. We continue to receive groups of carolers, often dressed as dancing devils, from the village in preparation for Christmas. Harry describes how we plan to travel to Freetown and the beginning of the dry season.

In this episode Joan writes home about creating Christmas decorations and we get visitors from the the village. She describes our extraction "plan" as there is rumor of government trouble.