It's for sure a third world.

So I've been in Liberia for 3 days and it has been the most eye-opening, scary, tiring, exciting three days so far! When I arrived, we all piled into a bus and drove into Kakata for our training. Liberia is the greenest most humid place I have ever been to! It's pretty beautiful!

Since I've been here, I've been tangled in a mosquito net, encountered at least 3 elephant sized bugs , seen what 3rd world looks like, learned that there are 8 types of diarrhea and have seen countless colorful lizards! It's been quite exciting..... :)

3rd world conditions are unlike anything you'll ever encounter in the United States. People are everywhere selling things like eggs, meat, bags of water and bags of nuts ON THEIR HEADS. There is trash everywhere, broken down cars left to rot and children younger than 8 doing more labor than I've ever seen a grown man do. However, aside from the overcrowding, bizaar smells and dead rats(which I STEPPED ON), you encounter people that are so friendly and happy to be alive. During our walk around, many kids ran up to us like we were celebrities and wanted to high five us and hug us. I've never seen so much happiness radiate off a child than when we all put out our knuckles to pound their knuckles. Though the city scared me shitless because I was so out of my comfort zone, I am so beyond humbled and ecstatic that I get to be apart of something SO MUCH larger than myself. :) everyone should travel to Liberia at least once. If not for the cute children, then for the pineapple and for the fact that $20 US looks like a million dollars when you exchange it for the Liberian Dollar.... :)

That was for sure the deepest thing I have ever wrote... Someone call Oprah.