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Marilena ZINGALE

Staying in sanity - the full effort to survive Liberia

2 November 2006, 14:17 , by Marilena Zingale

 

As this would be my first mission assignment, I never though that I would have survived so far. Coming from New York where the living is sophisticated, everything is available almost every where, in which a lot of us has been taking things for granted. It has been over 2 years since my first time landed my foot here in Monrovia the capital of Liberia.

The moment the SN Brussel plane that took me from Brussels landed at Roberts International Airport, once the plane door was opened, the
hot-humid-air greeted me as a shock, and seeing the surrounding of medium sized-rubber forest surrounds the air filed, and asked myself: “Whatta hell, is the plane landed at the wrong country, or what?”

Marilena ZINGALE Marilena Zingale She is from Romania, where she lived till the age of 19. Afterwards she moved to New York and travelled between Europe (Italy) and the Big Apple, while she was studying Italian Language and Literature. Her extensive experience at the...

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2  Commentss

by Bhima at 5 November 2006, 12:55
you must survive
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Ass, salam persahabatan Fr. Indonesia.

Wah... asik banget bro bisa jalan-jalan kenegri ikan sapu-sapu (tampang item serem baik hati suka bersihin kaca aquarium :P)

Sudah dua tahun disana lama juga tapi kok bahasa indonesiannya masih lancar..?

Dalam hidup memang selalu begitu bang, apa yang kita impikan, hayalkan, apalagi hanya sekedar bayangan selalu saja melenceng jauh dari apa yang sudah kita fokuskan.

Tapi pengalaman yang didapatkan tak tergantikan dengan nilai uang.

Mo tanya disana ada cew yang cakep ngak?
hehehe.

it's ok Be enough so many thank you


by bambang aroengbinang at 17 November 2006, 03:43
Greetings. To me, the presence of a human being in a place like this, is not a simple matter, and is not without a meaning.

Aside from the influence you have emitted to the people around you in these two years of intense interactions, and vice versa, the article that you posted has probably the one that brought me here. And here I'm, trying so hard to put a a little advice for you to be the one who survives.

So, it's not a wrong country at all. Who knows what will happen NeXt.
 

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