Thursday the third of July, two of my friends here were eating lunch downtown (in Conakry) when some men came up to them and asked if they were American. They replied that they were, and that began a conversation between the groups about what they were doing in Guinea. The conversation led to an invitation for the next day for any of us who wanted to come visit their ship. It turns out these men are merchant marines (not associated with the military, basically just men who work on boats to ship things around the world). They were in Conakry for a few days unloading a huge supply of rice for the United Nation's World Food Program. My friends asked if we wanted to go the next day (yesterday) and we got a group together and went. It was really interesting, even just the procedure to get into the port (we had to get ID's and talk to a bunch of officials), then finding the boat was tricky b/c we had gotten the name wrong. However, once we were onboard, it was easy to find the man who my friends had met, and we had a great time touring the boat for the next couple hours. these are pictures from the tour:
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