During my first visit in Liberia, staying with family🤔😢(Nothing is FREE in Liberia)
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2023
- The day of my arrival in Liberia, on our way from the airport, my sister took me to “Red Light”market to buy food for her to cook for me, she said there were no food at home @4p😂
how many of you have stayed in family houses instead of renting hotels during your visit back home? I spent like crazy staying with them!!
It was my first visit, so I made sure that every single family within the city range got gifts from me, even including the elderly women in my village.. Instead of thanking me, some were complaining that I did pick and chose with the presents 🎁
That was my first and last time taking gift for any family members!
The only people who cooked without me giving them money were my childhood godmother, my brother’s wife and my other big sis in the village.
We have all experienced this. My first time back, I was expecting a lil bit of love and welcome but instead I became Bill Gates. Spending money left and right… I soon you stop or let say the money finish you’re by yourself now😂😂😂. Thanks for the great advice….especially for those back home, pls change ur thoughts process about us when we return.
Bill Gates son😂😂😂 sorry to hear but it’s true… spending left and right, if you go out with them, you will feed them for hanging out with you😢
My dear sister. I just moved to Liberia 2 weeks ago after living in America over 30 years. What you are saying is true. Let me add to it
Nothing is free in America either.
Wow🥰
I would love to move back one day as well. Thank you for sharing sis🫶
Exactly my point. How were they surviving without you? Wicked family. Am glad you've learned a lot. God you provide more for you.
Well said, thank you🫶🫶
Keep your travel plans to yourself. Never tell them when you are traveling there or leaving. It has worked out perfectly for me.
You are right about that.
But my dad is here with me, and once he knows;forget it!😂 And if I don’t tell them, I’m a disrespectful child🥴
@@vmonnaj You can't please or live up to everyone's expectations. You're an adult. Your parents have to respect your decisions. There is a saying, "you can't set yourself on fire to keep others warm. Your life, your decisions.
You are right though
@@vmonnajPeople don't realize how much you could spend even if you don't stay at a hotel. I did what I had to do before even letting my mother know I was there. I told her not to tell anyone, but she called the next day and said, "But my mouth itching oh." People don't realize how much you could spend even if you don't live in a hotel.
”But my mouth itching ey😂😂 you are absolutely correct though. Every time you step out, you will spend..
Everything in this video is all facts 💯. And you're a great storyteller
Thank you🙏🙏
You're so honest, I love it ❤...
Thank you🙏
I truly love and appreciate your transparency/honesty. My story is no different than yours. Looking forward to more content.🥰
Thank you so much! I appreciate that!🙏
My first trip to Liberia, that trip caused me about $16,000 plus my bills in America. I was in Liberia for 6 weeks. That shit will never happen again
Jesus!!!
I’m not mad at you! They will cost you to spent money you never plan to spend🤦♀️
Our people back home are so inconsiderate 😒 thank God I follow my instinct and stayed on RIA highway and only brought my dad to stay with me at a guesthouse. All my food didn't run out. I will always stay at guesthouse. I will always protect my peace at any cost 😅😂.
That was my initial thought, don’t know how I convinced myself to deviate from it.. Great idea, peace of mind is everything.. I spent few nights on RIA highway there as well, at Atombrah..😂 don’t know if it’s spelled correctly
@@vmonnaj oh, I stayed at LA CASA and they had the policy for only 4 people can stay so I used that to my advantage when people tried to stay 😂🤣🤣 most of us think we'll save money when we stay with family, but no! Even if you get your own home be careful or else you'll be miserable in it while vacationing 🤣😁
It’s crazy!!!!! We have hide when we’re back home for peace of mind 😢
@@DNICEEntertainment22 why you have to hide? because they are POOR and still in the same position that you were in before you got help and move from Africa?
😂😂😂😂 after paying transportation and you don't meet me at home, you will balance!
Thanks for sharing this video. ❤
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Next time when you travel tell them it is their responsibility to show you that hospitality because you are a "stranger" visiting them. That's how my grandparents treated us as kids who we used to visit the Sanoyea District, Bong county before the war.
I visited Senegal in 2017 for six days. I experienced what Senegalese call Teranga. In the time I was there I turned away food many times.
Do you think they don’t know that we are strangers,after all those years we’ve been away, they know, but they just don’t care. Some of them no longer believe in hospitality. But they want us to cater to their basic needs still.
@@vmonnaj Well, we have to be bold with them. They might not want to hear it but we have to teach them our grandparents values. The villagers were more civilized before the war.
Absolutely 💯
Thanks for sharing ur story my sister❤ I believed u 💯
I appreciate that
That's the same problem I have with my family in Liberia, they're so lazy to make farm and it so crazy, they think we got our money for free in America.
Very lazy! Buy pepper 🌶️ from the city to the village…. They don’t know how annoying it is
Wow! That the readon people stay in hotels. It ends up being the same in terms of cost
Yes, but without the stress...
Plenty sense in this thing you talked yah...heaven help those who help themselves.
Ehn? Thank you yah
We Can’t keep providing for grown folks for years, and expecting to get different results.. they are refusing to be corrected
Hi I am from London, just saw your video and it is some how funny and I am laughing my head off, what all you have said is all true, this how majority of our family members behave, they are very selfish and unreasonable, always making demand, like they own everything you have, I am saying this because I experienced similar altitude from my family members too, I read many of the replys in the video and like the one that the person said they are far away from their family members, 😀😀 I will be doing the same thing, it make sense, we need to teach them how to be honest and trustworthy and for them, not to take us for granted, great video thanks for sharing 👍👍
No problem and thanks for watching🙏 There is no hospitality anymore like it used to be😐
Great prospective beautiful. I had similar experience…
Thanks for sharing!
😂😂😂
You are so interesting my dear
I try😃 thanks for watching
You need to slow down sending funds to Liberia. We all have learned the hard way.
Yes ooh my dear… I am still learning myself.. money sending had decreased
That's the facts of our family in libera, my sister, it is very sad 😢
Terribly sad 😢
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I'm very proud of you, my dear. U improved in a short time, like myself, country boy.
My older sister did similar thing to me as well. I sent her money to get our land deed from the city. She n her husband secretly took that money n bought their private land. Months after her older daughter, my niece called n tell me what her mom had wrongly used the amt I sent her. Since then, I just get sick of her.
Thank you.
She didn’t do it to you but herself. They like to poo poo on their own farm road..lol
My spirit boiling in me as you speak sis. I don’t even know if I want to go to Lib anymore.
I
U are the 1,000 people I have heard this from.
Lord please help us.
Please don’t let that to stop you sis.. amongst the terrible things there are many good things and kind people as well.. Liberia 🇱🇷 is bitter sweet… trust, there is fun there as well.
I am only touching the simplest things our people could do for us and showing less concern like we don’t have needs….
Once you visit once or twice, you will think differently..
Don't give up on yourself.
You just speak for me but
I'm in Canada when I see the news about how black people get shot In America I can't of coming to America 🇺🇸
My dear, we are here surviving by the grace of God.
Everything you say is true
❤️❤️
Honesty is the best policy. Don't enable them. Tell them the truth. Focus on yourself and your family. Liberians and other Africans are growing food in Rhode Island at Urban Edge farm(on the Cranston/Johnston town line). If Liberians are growing food here in the U.S. Liberians can grow food there.
Absolutely! Everybody wants to work in government offices. No one wants to be a farmer.
@@vmonnaj In 2012 I stayed in Brewerville where I saw man who build a duplex from his potato greens farm.
Oh wow
There’s money in farming
@@vmonnaj Farmers are some of the richest people in the world.
I like your hair
Don’t make me to start bluffing😂 thank you🥰
Lol. Everything you said my sister is true
Thank you sis
Thank my Brother will not allow that type of thing Around him!
Let time I went,I stayed in his house,he fed me,even give me money!
🤩 🤩 bravo to our one of the kind.. it’s not all of them thou, but most are like that!!
Liberia man hand always want to be open 👐 to receive
They can only receive never to give back
😢😢😢
Not even plantains soup. But when they are going back you have to pay.
I’m telling you😂😂
You talking like you know my family.. exactly the same thing.. 😢😢😢
Very sad.. I’m sorry to hear🥹
I’m from the same district. I knw your town
Really, which town are you from?
@@vmonnaj kparblee town
@@matt633nk9 I visited Kparblee in 2020… I went to Deoblee for a church conference
@@vmonnaj smor world
Indeed
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It's not forced to come and visit if I have to pay your transportation.
I’m telling you
Let me read comments and move to the next video yaaa 😀😀😀😀
😂😂😂
You Mano girl I eating food with plenty pepper. If this pepper go inside my hay, I will not forgive you 😂😂😂😂😂😂. You say hello you will pay. If they say hello you will pay. 😂😂😂
Ey I’m telling you oo no free hello in that country😂😂😂
Ehn when they come say hello to us, we have to pay to see them off 😂😂😂
@@vmonnaj So I built my private residence about 3 minutes away from the airport. Guess what some of my friends and former classmates said…. They claimed that I built my residence in an unreachable location. Yes they said that. They are trying to say that I don’t have the right to choose where I should live. Where I live should meet their demands and approval. That’s how crazy people can be. When you make mistakes and live in close proximity, you will receive unannounced visitors as early as 6AM. And they will demand that you wake up from your sleep to attend to/give them transportations. My auntie and I are not on speaking terms for that reason. She came over on a Sunday morning at 6. I usually sleep up to 11-12 . My auntie demanded that I wake up. She kept sending the maid to tell me that she was around. I got pissed, went downstairs to meet with her. It was after 10am by then. My auntie started blasting that she has been waiting since 6am. So I said to her….. did I ask you to come to my house at 6am? Don’t you have anything to do at your house in the morning? Did you call to know what time was good to visit? Don’t you have a phone? I left and went back to my bedroom. 3 years ago no speaking. End of story. You na able them
@@darlinkwawood2296 Congratulations on the achievement!!!!
That’s a great location. They have stagnant mindset that things won’t change and Liberia won’t expand.
The farther you are, the better.
The entitlement!
Like you said, why can’t she call? Waking you up like you guys have a 6am appointment or you got to be at work.😂
They don’t understand that we need the rest and sleep when we leave America…
She will come around for the right reasons, I hope; if that’s what you want… lol
So sad mehn..
Yes ooh
They users😂
scammers and users..those
Folks don’t give a dam about us on the other side
I swear! They just don’t care!
Look at the lens, not the screen
Okay, I will do that. I’m still a little nervous 😬lol
@vmonnaj you don't show it. You're doing fine
Thank you🙏
Le ting is paining me man
I’m guessing you have had your own experience ehn…
@@vmonnaj yea mehn. Especially about the part where they can grow their own food and they choose not too. Ppl in Africa don’t know how blessed they are in that aspect. You can save so much money and use they money they sending you on other things but they put so much financial burden on us and it’s not easy here in America either
It really rubs me the wrong way the fact that their every financial means has to come from America and some of them don’t even want to try to help themselves! Sis, do you know how much money goes to Africa every year! We just gotta do what we gotta do to help ourselves and children here first then extend our help there; if not you will be drained…
@@nevergoin28 because they are still it. Things are getting harder and harder in America so they won’t be getting the money like before.. life will be better from both sides if we all put in effort to work instead of leaning one sided; everything America
@@vmonnaj yes my dear sista
Do not stay to your family people when you go back home. As for me I don't tell anybody when I am going to Liberia or returning. I don't eat from them. Everything you will do in Liberia including food is at your own expense and they want everything from you because none of them will give you water to drink free.
Exactly!!! It’s very annoying and sad that we have to hide from our own family.. they are unreasonable,very terrible.
So sad !!! .But you lucky you didn't send your money to them to Carry on your project for you.
Nothing you were going to meet on ground. They were going to use all your money free and end up with spider stories.
Spider story😀
I did actually send money there for my project, but I guess I am one of the lucky ones to get a good result.. Thank God, that’s all I can say
As soon as you arrive on the continent, you become a walking , talking, ATM machine 😝...it's not going to change, so you should set a budget and make sure you stick to it.
Is the walkie-talkie ATM machine for me😂😂 you are absolutely right though
@@vmonnajI think the media is the main cause for this type of thinking. People in Africa think Americans or British have a money tree in the backyard, they think money grows on trees. I had two people WhatsApp me asking me to buy them cars😝😂...They don't realize that most people in the US do not even own their cars or their homes...they are owned by the bank until it's paid off.
@@Uncle-Basil until that kingdom come, I don’t think some will ever understand that there’s no money trees abroad 😩
You sure that not marry you go for??
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