Saturday, December 24, 2011

Living in liberia

I don't really remember that much about living in Liberia, i just get flash backs about everyday thing like for example i remember we went to church every Sunday my grandma and my uncle Thomasa  were the priests. The church were called AG, it was assemblies of God church. The whole family were members of that church.I remember for Christmas the family would cook allot of food and we will take the foods to the Church and we had service and than after the service we had like little gathering with the church.And than for new year we had a night service that took us in to the new year,than when  we get in the new year we went around in the village  singing and knocking on doors waking people up and wishing them happy new year. And afterward we went home and the women would started to cook and the children  would be playing and the men did what ever the men did on new year  and that how we celebrate our holidays.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Move to Liberia

So while we were in Ivory-coast  the were war still going on in Liberia, we were there for a while than my family heard the war ceased little. so the men decided to go and made sure if it were save before the whole family move back.When they got there, they saw that the city wasn't save, so they couldn't go back to their old houses or home they left behind but there villages were OK, they weren't as bad as the city were. So they decided they should started over and by moving to there village, instead of  living in the city like they did, before they war started.So they went and built houses in this village called too-slung, I know I'm not spelling it right And as months pass more of  dad family move back, the section of the village they live in got bigger and bigger  it was Jacob village, it was name after my late grand pa Jacob Togbah, my dad father, cause he was the head of the family.Almost all my family members from my dad side of the dad side of my family moved back and  live in that village.While some of my family move back some stay Ivory-coast, these that  stay  back were mostly my mom family.,i stay back with them in Ivory-coast while my mama and papa were in Liberia, later on my parent sent for me to come and stay with them in Liberia.I don't  really remember how old i was but i think i like 2 or 3. when i  move  to Liberia to my parent thing were going OK,even though war were still  going on in the country.We living really sample,my dad and uncles  farm rice,each from had their own farm, and my mom and aunts made garden, they grew any they anything u can think about. My uncle Thomas was the family hunter, this dude was good he could kill anything.so we basically live as producer.
I'm going to stop right here for now.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

I was born

sorry guys that i haven't been witting on here,but  I'm back!

my parent meet in Ghana ,they went to to Ghana before the war started in Liberia , they went there to go to school, that how they meet each other, while they were they in Ghana the war started back home so they couldn't go back home.they had me on the  refuge camp while they were  still in school.i wasn't born in an hospitals like most kid, i was born in the one or two bedroom apartment my mom and her cousin  were renting.they didn't have modern doctors on the camp so i was deliver by a country doctor.when i was born i had a  tumor right in the middle of my heard,I was born with too much water in my body so  i wasn't allow to drank water for the first  six months of my life and i also had cuffing problems. I was a really sickly baby.If you know any thing about Ghana , you will know that Ghana is really hot  it is right below the equator, so it hot all year long and it felt like we live on the sun.So each though the country doctor told  my  i wasn't allow to have water my mom couldn't stand it . She told me one night i was cuffing so hard none stop, she could just watch and do nothing, so she give me water,i got really sick i almost die, every thought i was going to die, they just hoping and pray, and waiting for me to die,but i got heal miraculously. my parent  just got tire with all the stuffing, so they decided to move to Ivory-coast because they heard some of their family member were there. Liberia and Ivory-coast are neighboring country, so when the war started some of the people ran there there too. most people that went the walk there. It's in walking distant, it take about day and a half or two to get there depending on how fast you walk.so my parent  thought if they move to  Ivory-coast thing would be easier  and their family members could help take care of me. And surely it was happen, when we got to Ivory-coast theirs family member were there.And basiclly both side of the family took turns taking care of me. I was treated like a king,because i was the only baby in the house hold, before any one  touch me they had to watches their hand.