Conakry - Post Report Question and Answers
What have been the highlights of your time in this country? Best trips or experiences?
Highlights are getting to know some of the people who live here. There are some islands that are worth a trip to see, but not really even worth a second visit. There’s not much to do here. - Sep 2022
The highlights of our time here might be just gradually watching my children grow into decent human beings. Hopefully they would have done this anyway, but being in Guinea has added a few valuable nuances to the people they're becoming. The culture here is unpretentious, unself-conscious, so that my kids no longer have some of the hangups or shyness that they naturally tend toward, and that might be amplified if we lived in a more rigid, bourgeois setting. They are generous and patient with differences, as other people are accepting with them despite their differences. My brood sees other kids taking care of siblings, being respectful to parents and elders in general, eating without pickiness, helping with family chores, and making their own entertainment, and my kids have followed suit. They are getting better at seeing beyond the surface to the content of people and places, such that they're not turned off by a trash-strewn beach if there's at least one clean patch they can use for their purposes, or reluctant to play with another kid due to age or class differences. Sometimes my spouse and I will be pouting about a hotel or something that's not up to our standards, and they're the ones who comment that it's actually not that bad! - Jun 2021
Getting away on R&R. - Nov 2019
Epicenter of the world's largest Ebola outbreak. Watching the evening bat migration along the coast. Listening to local live music. Urban walking/biking to try to learn the city a bit. - May 2016
Friendly people, fun adventures. - Dec 2014
