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My favorite dish: grilled croaker fish and chips "You who buy imported western food; don’t you know how important food is to a culture and that by avoiding it you are avoiding connecting with your host culture?" "You who buy food from the local market and street vendors, don’t complain when you get typhoid or amoebic dysentery. It’s your own fault. You know how unsanitary all that is." (https://www.alifeoverseas.com/youre-doing-it-wrong/) My attempt at making eba and ogbono soup I have been on a mission for the last nine months to find original cream cheese, but I have had little success. The only thing I found was light cream cheese (which just isn't the same) and it cost almost $6.00 for a small packet. It's just not worth it. When I go to Shoprite (the supermarket that is not far from my house) I pass by the cheese aisle, checking the prices, just hoping that it might go down. I still haven't made the dive into the dark-side of buying...
Beloved. Dearly Loved. A word tattooed on my heart by my God, my Father, my Bridegroom. When we fall completely in love with our Savior, He will delight over you with gladness; He will quiet you by his love; He will exult over you with joyful song. (Zephaniah 3:17) This is the most important lesson that I have learned in my four years at Calvin College. I have chosen to follow his plans for my life and to trust completely in him. This has brought me on adventures I never would have dreamed of; teaching English in Korea, teaching in Honduras for a month, and creating relationships with many young students in Grand Rapids Public Schools. One of these upcoming adventures in his plan for me is to go to Sierra Leone in the fall for one year. In my years before coming to Calvin, I thought about everything but being a teacher: an engineer, a nurse, a brain surgeon, and even a hairdresser. But after my first year at ...
Lagos is known as the city that never sleeps. The day to day hustle and bustle of Lagos reflects strongly in the driving. You are the only one whose time matters on the road. No one else's time has any value to you. I have been told that if you can master driving in Lagos, you can drive anywhere in the world. Yellow buses and kekes. The first piece of advice I received when I arrived in Lagos is not to pick a fight with the infamous yellow buses and the three-wheeled kekes. They believe they are immortal. No fear. Let them have their way because they think they own the road. They pull off to the side of the road without warning, drop off passangers, and continue to merge with oncoming traffic as if no one else could possibly be driving on the road. But, rumor has it that the current governor of Lagos State has a masterplan to get rid of the yellow buses. Lanes. Lanes mean nothing in Lagos. Wherever your car is,...
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