{"id":7470,"date":"2016-07-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:07:36","slug":"so-your-character-is-from-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/so-your-character-is-from-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"So Your Character is From Liberia &#8230; Featuring Lucy Buller @ Rybrynn&#8217;s Random Scribblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SoYourCharacterIsFromLiberia.png?resize=640%2C470\" width=\"640\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">It&#8217;s time for this month&#8217;s So Your Character is From Another Country! This is a monthly or bimonthly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country. I&#8217;m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven&#8217;t checked out last month&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/06\/so-your-character-is-from-philippines.html\">So Your Character is From the Philippines &#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Liberia is honestly not a country I&#8217;ve thought much about, but when Lucy volunteered to be interviewed, I was very excited to learn more about West Africa!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<!-- more --><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts are as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">(None of the Images are Mine)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"color: red; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ME2B252812529.jpg?resize=200%2C200\" width=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\">Lucy Buller is an amazing person (no, seriously). She lives in Liberia, West Africa but is native to the United States of America. She is addicted to reading books and it doesn&#8217;t look like she&#8217;ll stop that anytime soon. Lucy is also the best writer in the universe (haha, no). She has a problem with sarcasm and owning too many books.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/lucygracedoesalot\/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel\">Facebook<\/a>\/\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LucyBuller\">Twitter<\/a>\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/ryebrynnsrandomrambling.blogspot.com\/\">Blog<\/a>\/\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/life_books_cats\/\">Instagram<\/a>\/\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/rcrossblade\/\">Pinterest<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>What do you feel is unique to your country? Landmarks? Celebrations?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Well, this is hard to answer. Liberia is has been heavily influenced by a lot of countries and lost many of its inequities in the war.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Downtown_Monrovia_3348917715_67a2002529.jpg?resize=640%2C424\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Monrovia, Capital of Liberia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Tell me about your country&#8217;s environment. What are some of your favorite places?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nFor starters, it&#8217;s very humid here. Six months of the year it&#8217;s raining, six months of the year it isn&#8217;t. I really love going to ELWA. They have an amazing beach there. I also enjoy going upcountry to Gbarnga. Up in Gbarnga it gets much colder than down here in the city, so I love it up there. Another place I love to go is an Ecolodge called Libassa. They have a pool there and visiting there makes a fun family day.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ELWA2B252822529.jpg?resize=640%2C362\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">ELWA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Gbarnga2B252812529.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; text-align: justify;\">Gbarnga<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Libassa.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Libassa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Tell me about your country&#8217;s food. What are some of your favorite dishes?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThere aren&#8217;t a ton of original dishes. A lot of countries have some of the same ones. For example, ground-pea soup (peanut), and jollof rice. My favorite, however, would definitely be pepper soup and fufu. Fufu is a patty-like food that is sticky, mostly tasteless, and slightly\u2026 tangy? Honestly, it&#8217;s tastier than it sounds.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FufuAndSoup.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Fufu &amp; Soup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Tell me about any different speech patterns in your country. Slang? Idioms? Words for things such as \u201cbiscuits\u201d instead of \u201ccookies\u201d?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nThe most prominent one is Liberian English. When you first come to Liberia, it feels like everyone is speaking in Pig Latin. It&#8217;s very hard to understand and much harder to speak. To encompass every change that they make to the English language in this post would be hard, but if you&#8217;re interested, I can recommend a good book called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/crackingthecodes.org\/\">Cracking the Code<\/a><\/i>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/09002BLIBERIA2BTrip2B20072B030xbsf2B1M.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Liberian Students<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Describe briefly a regular day in your country.&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nFor a normal Liberian: A normal day entails getting up around 4-5 a.m. If the Liberian is a woman, she&#8217;ll most likely go to the market and sell fruit, jewelry, or an assortment of food items. A lot of the men aren&#8217;t employed, and stay home. If there is a case that a man is employed, his wife is more likely to stay home and cook, maybe run a small provision shop from home, rather than sell at the market.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/liberia-food-amid-ebola.jpg?resize=640%2C360\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Liberian Woman Selling Fruit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How does your country compare to others, especially the States since my audience is primarily American? Environmentally? Politically? Culturally?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nOn the technical front, Liberia is very far behind the States. The government system is based largely off of the United States&#8217;, with a president and other government-y stuff (sorry, I don&#8217;t know a lot of the terms). Culturally, it&#8217;s very different. They live very differently from America, often on a \u201cplan for today\u201d basis.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/president.jpg?resize=494%2C640\" width=\"494\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What are some stereotypes about your country that irk you?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nLiberia&#8217;s isn&#8217;t super well-known outside of the Ebola outbreak, so there aren&#8217;t a ton of stereotypes.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What media portrays your country badly be it a movie, a book, or a TV show?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nI&#8217;ve never seen it in a movie. It was briefly mentioned in the TV show <i>Doctor Who<\/i>, and I suppose that could be a bad portrayal, because the man totally didn&#8217;t have a Liberian accent.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What media portrays your country well be it a movie, a book, or a TV show?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<i>Called for Life<\/i> by Kent and Amber Brantly portrays Liberia really well.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Called-for-Life.jpg?resize=426%2C640\" width=\"426\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Who are your top three favorite characters native to your country in books, movies, or shows?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nI&#8217;ve never seen or read about many characters from Liberia.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/sweet-girl.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" width=\"640\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Liberian Child<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Me:&nbsp;<\/b>Thank you so much Lucy for telling us a bit about your home! I never knew about all this. Come back on the 16th for So Your Character is From Algeria &#8230;!<br \/><b><br \/><\/b><b>Are you interested in participating in this project?<\/b>&nbsp;Slots for Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, the Philippines, and Liberia have been filled, but if you are from any other country, shoot me an email at howellvictoriagrace(a)gmail.com.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: right;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Do you have any Liberian characters? Did this inspire you to write a Liberian character or set a book in Liberia? Are from this country and you have further input? Feel free to share! Do you have any questions for Lucy? 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This is a monthly or bimonthly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country. 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