Rainbow Town ...

Hello friends,

Quick update before I head up country to Gbarnga where the Rainbow Town orphanage is located. Four of us are here and we're going to go hard shooting the documentary in the next two weeks. I can't even explain the things I've seen, the people I've talked to and the conditions these people live in. I'm still in the captial city Monrovia and we've had a few days to shoot the city. I've hung out with kids playing soccer in a sand field, I've talked to street vendors who sell anything and everything for money to eat, I've see a gas station that kids run by pouring pink gasoline by hand into your car with gallon mayonaise jugs. Women carrying baskets, water jugs, and furniture on their heads, water wells, waking up to roosters, outrageous thunderstorms, and buildings still carrying the wounds of the war. I also just ate my first authentic African dinner last night consisting of rice and "soup" ....beans and chicken. It was good.

The English here is so different. Imagine someone talking really fast and not pronouncing the ends of words and you have Liberian dialect. The funniest thing is the locals have a hard time understanding our English, but if I mumble and talk faster they can understand me. It's amazing.

Oh the people I've met and the things I've witnessed. I wish I have more time to write but I wanted to update before we head up country where internet is limited. So I hope all is well and I'll talk to you soon!!