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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Second Sierra Leone Dispatch: Happy Easter from Freetown!

07-Apr-07

7 April 2007 (19:47) Happy Easter Dear Family and Friends! I am absolutely radiant right now… due in large part to the sun burn across my arms and chest from a day at the beach! I am also in high spirits from the good energy of this first few days in Freetown. The mission team [...]

First Sierra Leone Dispatch: Arrival to Freetown

04-Apr-07

3 April 2007 (22:29) Dear Family and Friends: After 13.5 hours of traveling from Berlin to London to Dakar to Freetown… the 7-minute helicopter ride from the airport to downtown was refreshingly brief and particularly exciting. As I rode at the front of a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter loaded to the gunwales with 40 people and [...]