Alison Fischer
Class of 1999
Blog post from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where Ali worked with the U.N. Special Court. April 6, 2011.
Someone I love likes to say, “Waiting is a little vacation.” He says it, eyes raised in mock-serenity, whenever something is making one of us crazy.
Here, though, I’ve started to take it a more literally. So many things I take for granted as being automated at home—light, hot water, heat—require a conscious human action here. Someone has to prime the pump, hit the switch or fill the tank.
The dark moments, the little vacations, make me appreciate that fact all more…
Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown Photo by Alison Fischer '99
