Monrovia, Liberia

May 28, 1934

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Mail boat day is busy because all the mail has to be out of the post-office so it will go home. Everyone's books are closed then and all the business is concentrated because everyone, like me, puts off things until the last minute.

It takes a month for mail to get here and it usually arrives regularly every four weeks from April Fools Day.

My lessons are free but you cannot learn as much in a correspondence school as you can in a regular full-time school, so if you are desirous of completing your education you must enroll in full-time school.

Saturday the cook served a crab and avacado salad for lunch and the day before a shortcake with native fruit, which resembles a cherry in color and strawberry in flavor. The only place I ever saw this fruit was in the American Lutheran compound. My cook is not the best or even a good cook but I fear my tastes, which have always been the most plain, will be geared to the luxury class before I see the United States again!

Tonight is full moon and really it is not exaggerating when you say that you can read by the light of the moon. It is so light and so cool during this time. Every thing seems to be put on a ground glass because every thing is so clear-cut. It is not at all like the hot, . . .