Monday a.m.

Good morning! It's Monday. Are you OK with that? I hope so. You might as well be. It looks like it is going to be a nice day.

We got a nice phone call from Luke yesterday afternoon. He is in Liberia working for about 10 days. He seems to be enjoying the experience so far. He's experiencing that weird mixture of an impoverished country and technology. He is staying in a company guest house with WIFI, and he has a corporate cell phone to call anyone he wants.

Luke told Kedra about how they have people who cook for them and serve them. The local culture says that people like Luke are not to talk to them or interact with them. Luke was saying that that really bothered him, so he has been trying to talk to the people serving him. He indicated they were not sure how to take it.

Yesterday he went on a boat trip and went by Monkey Island, pictured above. He said that years ago the monkeys were placed on the island for the purpose of conducting tests/experiments on them. I'm not sure what for, but now he says they are just there begging for food from people coming by.

It was really good to talk to Luke yesterday, and then I had a really good conversation with Rebecca also. She is busy finishing up another semester at Lipscomb. She is then going to jump into a "may-mester": taking some classes in a compacted format. It's going to be tough.

OK, I have a busy week ahead, and you do too, I'm guessing. Thanks for coming by!