Sub-Comm.

Well as some of you may have heard by other channels, I am now (unofficially) a subcommittee chairman within the comprehensive steering committee on community forestry in Liberia. I'm not quite sure how that happened. A man named Moses did it, rather against any desires of my own. I am pressing to retain the title "reporter" instead of "chairman," myself. It's kind of a lawyers' trick.

Rains have been pretty serious, though not at all constant. Today was sunny in a way that was a bit hard to believe considering an inch of rain probably fell between midnight and 10am. I continue to tread the funny line between daily life in Monrovia - buying 500mL plastic bags of drinking water for L$5 - and making budgeting and course selection decisions for my fancy private law school, easily requesting $300 to support student events and enrolling for courses like "Problems in Modern Jurisprudence," while operating in a city where average earnings are probably around $1 per day and half a packet of crackers can really make a difference to someone I meet.