We speak the same language. I think.

Today was a balls to the wall sort of day. Multiple meetings (mostly scheduled at the last minute, god bless African standard time), documents that needed a Rosetta Stone to decipher, and to my surprise an incomprehensible language: English! I thought I had heard every creole version and dialect of English until I landed up in Liberia. At one point today, my colleague and I looked at each other and he mouthed the words: "Are they speaking English?!" I think our Liberian colleagues thought we were total idiots at one point because we kept asking them to spell out names, slow down and explain what they were saying, and generally speak to us like we were at a third grade level of English. I love linguistic diversity but when you can't communicate in the same damn language then "Houston, we have a problem!"