March 6th, 2025 2:00pm - Monrovia, Liberia

When: March 6th, 2025 2:00pm (8:00pm in Liberia)

Where: Monrovia, Liberia

Who: Anora David

Unfortunately, we were unable to connect with Liberia due to a power outage. If you would like to learn about Liberia, check out last year's post about Liberia!

1:15 PM - MYSTERY CALL - Monrovia, Liberia

 When: March 7th @ 1:15 PM (7:15 PM in Liberia)

Where: Monrovia, Liberia

Who: Anora David

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Basketball is growing

Kickball for girls, Soccer for boys

Different churches

9th grade is junior high

Most animals killed or left in civil war

Mini hippo

African Elephant

Monrovia, Liberia! 

Not northern part of continent 

Around africa

Size of Ohio or Tennessee 

Monroevia is the Capital

Above equator 

Hot weather dry season middle of november to april

Rain season 

English official language, 15 different dialects  

Some mountains

Rice 

Kasaba 

7:22 in liberia. 1:22 here

Thanksgiving on the first thursday on every November

They go to church on thanksgiving 

They go clean the grave of family members

Monrovia named after James Monroe

People listen to American and African music

Fried rice with meat and sausage 

Cassava leaves

Rice every day

Three branches of government

Schools that run from Kindy to 12th

Founded by freed slaves of america

Pledge allegiance very similar 

Very similar to US government

Civil War Dec 1989- 2005 

First african female president in Africa

Good Beaches

Soccer is big

Snakes

Clothing similar to america

Lappa is the traditional clothing

Importing goods is a lot of money

Bird of paradise

Coconut and palm trees

Bordered by the atlantic ocean

Used to have the largest Rubber plantation

People go to surf

Milk is not liquid

11:00 AM - Monrovia, Liberia

When: March 10th @ 11:00 AM (5:00 PM in Liberia)

Where: Monrovia, Liberia

Who: Anora David

We first had trouble connecting to our speaker, Anora David, because there were internet issues in her city of Monrovia. Liberia is in Africa, and Monrovia is the capital city, with about 30% of the country’s population. We were able to connect with our speaker briefly, but we got disconnected again just a few minutes into our call. We believe she is still having connectivity issues. A fun fact about Monrovia - it is actually named in honor of U.S. President James Monroe because he favored the American colonization of the country in 1822. We could not reconnect with Anora, so we had to end the World Tour on that note.