It is now January 2011 and both the Holiday Season and New Year’s Eve have come and gone… WOW time has flown!  It feels like just yesterday that I returned to the U.S. after a terrific three months of research in Liberia.  My dual-M.A. program at Brandeis is two and half years in length, and [...]

Adam Rosenberg ’11 is a M.A. dual degree candidate in Sustainable International Development and Coexistence & Conflict.  He recently returned from a summer in Liberia, and you can view his prior posts here. This blog post was written as he returned from Liberia. To my complete and utter amazement, it is 6 p.m. on August [...]

Wow, I can’t believe it is already August!  After three months here in Liberia, I will conclude my time on the 29th… my departure-date will be a sad day for me.  While I miss many people and places in the United States, I love being in Africa and I have especially developed a particular love [...]

July 2nd marked something of a new beginning for me in Monrovia — on that day I moved from the City Center neighborhood to the Sinkor neighborhood. I knew my first apartment would only be available for a month, so, toward the end of June, I posted a “room wanted” note to the (ever so [...]

Part II of “The Unpaved Road to the Future” by Adam Rosenberg, MA student in Liberia. Read Part I here. I slept late/ish the following morning.  In the early afternoon I decided to try walking through the city center of Zwedru, in an attempt to reach the LDI office, which I managed just fine.  I [...]

After just two weeks in Liberia, my boss at the Liberia Democratic Institute (LDI) informed me that I would be joining a team that was has headed into “the bush” for about a week.  The LDI is headquartered in Monrovia, but it has a national scope and it has one satellite office elsewhere in the [...]

Attending Brandeis University had long been a dream of mine.  My experience there (thus far) has been everything and more that I ever could have hoped for and, while I am saddened that the school-year has come to an end, I could not be more thrilled to be representing Brandeis in Liberia this summer.  Specifically, [...]