Peter: Participating in the first annaul surf compitition in Liberia.

Since Elie told me about the surf contes I been thinking how it was going to be like until the day came for the performance.

The night was long because I couldn't wait for the day to come.

It was 6:00 clock in the morning when I heard a car hoon, after that I knew that it was time to go to robertsport.

It was My friend from the U.S. Embassy.

On our way up to robertsport, we started this funny conversation.

He asked me, is there's any price for the least participant? After that I just laugh.

When we came to the beach I saw all lot of thing going on, the Nana's was having a party and at the same time we  were having a surf, it was feeling great.

I met Elie and Nat and give them a huge hug, because I heard doing the week they were ill with malaria so I was happy to see them on the beach agin.

After that they started getting thing ready for the contest and Nat told me to carry a table to ship wreak.

On my way to ship wreak I saw some guys surfing already at cotton three, so I was trying to fegure out who were those untill I found out it was Keath, Mashuel and some other guys.

The waves was looking nice at ship wreak, I had that exaggerated feeling By looking at those waves.

I thougt the ocean was giving us what we needed, when the contest started the waves started getting small but it was still working.

Mashuel, Ealie, Nat and some other peaple were the judges.

First Mashuel started to explain the rules about the surfing contest and after that Keath had to prayed then we started.

The first group  pedle out and Keath was the winner.

I was the was the winner of the sencond group, and the third was Afried.

After that Keath and are when for the semifinal, it was great I had my first wave and it was good but small, the second was small as the first.

When I had that one and ride it down to the beach, I saw Keath surfing a very nice wave, he had two as the same size and those waves was bigger than mine, at the movement I knew that he had the chance to wine me.

When Mashuel ring the alame, he said five menines for the time to be over.

I pedle back up and wiated for the wave and the wave never came so Keath had to win.

Than Keath and Afried went for the final, Afried had Keath and he was the winner of the contest.

I was so happy for my man Keath and Afried, we had fun and took picture together.

After the surfing contest Nat and Elie called up the winner and give them their prices, they also said a lot of good things about the surf support in Liberia.

And that was it for the weekend, I forget to sleep there to party too.

I just want to tell Nat and Elie thanks for everything they are doing in Liberia and I pray that God will bless them with more and more support .

Peter: Participating in the first annaul surf compitition in Liberia.

Since Elie told me about the surf contes I been thinking how it was going to be like until the day came for the performance.

The night was long because I couldn't wait for the day to come.

It was 6:00 clock in the morning when I heard a car hoon, after that I knew that it was time to go to robertsport.

It was My friend from the U.S. Embassy.

On our way up to robertsport, we started this funny conversation.

He asked me, is there's any price for the least participant? After that I just laugh.

When we came to the beach I saw all lot of thing going on, the Nana's was having a party and at the same time we  were having a surf, it was feeling great.

I met Elie and Nat and give them a huge hug, because I heard doing the week they were ill with malaria so I was happy to see them on the beach agin.

After that they started getting thing ready for the contest and Nat told me to carry a table to ship wreak.

On my way to ship wreak I saw some guys surfing already at cotton three, so I was trying to fegure out who were those untill I found out it was Keath, Mashuel and some other guys.

The waves was looking nice at ship wreak, I had that exaggerated feeling By looking at those waves.

I thougt the ocean was giving us what we needed, when the contest started the waves started getting small but it was still working.

Mashuel, Ealie, Nat and some other peaple were the judges.

First Mashuel started to explain the rules about the surfing contest and after that Keath had to prayed then we started.

The first group  pedle out and Keath was the winner.

I was the was the winner of the sencond group, and the third was Afried.

After that Keath and are when for the semifinal, it was great I had my first wave and it was good but small, the second was small as the first.

When I had that one and ride it down to the beach, I saw Keath surfing a very nice wave, he had two as the same size and those waves was bigger than mine, at the movement I knew that he had the chance to wine me.

When Mashuel ring the alame, he said five menines for the time to be over.

I pedle back up and wiated for the wave and the wave never came so Keath had to win.

Than Keath and Afried went for the final, Afried had Keath and he was the winner of the contest.

I was so happy for my man Keath and Afried, we had fun and took picture together.

After the surfing contest Nat and Elie called up the winner and give them their prices, they also said a lot of good things about the surf support in Liberia.

And that was it for the weekend, I forget to sleep there to party too.

I just want to tell Nat and Elie thanks for everything they are doing in Liberia and I pray that God will bless them with more and more support .

Peter: Surfing on the weekend and talking about the surf competition.

In my whole life, I never compete with no body in surfing, I don't even know how it's feel like.

Elie, Math, Mashuel and I went up to Robersport last weekend for a surf.

On our way going, Elie started this conversition about surfing competition and she said it will be done in Robertsport on (November 29, 2009.)

 Elie said that, all surfers in Liberia  are invited and even if you are not a surfer, you can come and see how surfing is expanding and how good is the surfers in liberia.

I pray for good waves becouse it will be lot of fun.

I believe this is the first surfing competition in Liberia and I also pray for support from in and out of Liberia for this sport that had never been in Liberia for years, with all those awesome waves.

ROBERTSPORT COMUNITY WORKS is making a great positive change in Liberia for tourism and also surfing.

Those pass two weekends  was unbeliveble, the waves was great.

The first weekend waves was double over head and glassy, I surf for six hours and doing the evening time we was surfing with lot of dolphin in the water, that real make me feel awe.

Two new surfers join Liberian Surfer blog

Two new surfers are joining the Liberian Surfer blog -- Alfred Lomax and Benjamin McCrumuda. Along with surfer Peter Swen, they make up the Surf Liberia team, a group of young Liberian surfers are sponsored by the local NGO Robertsport Community Works.

Over the next week or so, they will be introducing themselves and sharing their stories, writing about the surf and the community work they do through the organization. Stay tuned!

Peter: Surfing on the weekend, the first week in school, and playing basketball for the school team.

This week was great, I started school on the (sept 1, 9, 09) and I met some new friends.

The first day I went to school I had my SURF LIBERIA shirt on, so I had lot of people asking me about surfing in Liberia, how it feel like surfing and when do I go surf. I told them lot of things about surfing and they said they want to try it out, but it is in raining season now so I told them to wait for the dry season but they said they still will like to see me do it.

Now I trying to schedule a day for surf in monrovia bescaus I do not have a vehicle to take them t Robertsport. It still lot of fun in school, you know joking with friend and trying to achive your goals. The teacher have allready started giving us some assignments and it is lot of writting but my friends and I can do studies together so it was fun doing it together. We had about three Assgnment doing this week and we just submated it on the 10th of September and it was fun.

I went for basketball pritice with the school team and they siad that I was good so they have me join the school teams. I am so happy to be playing for the school and I like it, I still waitting for class league to show them my game.

Surfing on weekend was great, the wind was not too high as last weekend so we had some nice waves.

It was kind of sad because Nate wasn't there surfing with us, he travel but Elie still caught some nice wave and I was still there chearing for her.

Elie had one of her friends  taking photo so that make me little crazy try to show off. I think she had some nice photo of Elie, Alfred, Marshall and I.

I still pray for protection and good waves this month. The beach was different lot of the rock at Shipwrecks have gone under the sand and the wave started making barrels.

Peter: Surfing on the weekend and selling T-shirts, bags and rashguards

www.robertsportcommunityworks.org is selling T-shirts and a rashguards. The T-shirt and the rashgard is nice with SURFLIBERIA logo on the front of it and it is a very nice cotton.

I like it because it says something about my country Liberia and it is also suportting the Liberian surfer and making the people of Liberia to know more about the sport.

Believe me, I take it with me every where I go and every where I surf.

Lot of people asked me what the surf on the T-shirt means, I can tell them that it is one of the new sports in Liberia, then I will show them some photo of a surfer ridding a wave and start to explain how you do it.

Surfing was great this weekend, those waves were small but they were clean and nice.

Elie had some nice rides, she is getting very good, she never use to ride those type of waves she was ridding on last weekend, she was challenging them.

We were surfing at Shipwrecks, Marshall had some nice berrieds, he came back up and said it was yelling at him and he will show the example.

After surfing Shipwrecks, I came back to Cotton Trees and surf with Taya and some of her friends, I talk to them about the waves and how to ride it.

It was fun, Taya had some nice rides, she is getting good.

I was surfing at Cotton Trees and I saw Nate and Elie comming from surfing Shipwrecks, he told me that he lost one of his fins, I was try to tell him sorry and he said that I brought the bad luck because I have lost about three of my feans from surfing, but he was kidding.

It is bad if you lost those things in Liberia because you can't find them here.

On my NSP surf board I have a right fins on the left side because I lost it and had a right one.

After surfing we had source, fish and rice for lunch because the Nana's was open, I was so hungry after surfing for 5 hours so I ate a lot, then came back to Monrovia.

We had a little bad luck because one of my friend Sergei lost his water cam in the water, and he said that some guys was fishing right next to him with a net, so he tell them they will catch a camera but it was fun surfing on a new board.

Peter: Nice waves in the rainy season

On Sunday morning by 5:00 Mashual came to get me from my house to go to robertsport to surf but I felt bad because last weeekend wasn't too good and Afread called on saterday night and said that the wave was still the same so I thought the wind and the wave was the same way as last weekend but I was wrong.

When we got to robersport that morning we met Alfred on the road at his house getting ready to go surf so he had to ride with us to the beach.

When we turn on the left at Nana's we saw that the wave was so different, the ocean was nice and the wave was like dry season and Cotton Tree was working so I took my board and ran to Nate and Elie because last weekend I had a latele problem with my NSP board and I asked them for some stuff to get it repire but they were still at sleep under the Cotton Tree in their tents so I left it there and ask for one of Alfread board bescause I couldn't ride my other on, I left it with them last weekend.

So Afread, mashual, and I went out and the wave was just nice at Cotton Trees, it was a beutiful day the first wave I had I got beried in it and it keep comming, after few minutes Nate came he started surfing those wave, the next wave he took was a nice one, when he came back up I saw a nice logo on his rashgard says SURF LIBERIA so I asked him how can I get that on my mine.

After surfing we came for lunch and the Nana's wasn't open so we ate all we had and came back to Monrovia.

I tell you last weekend was so bad, the first  wave I took at Ship Wrecks, I ride it for few seconds when it was getten like a wall I try to jump off it but my leach left my leg and my NSP board went in to the rocks, the wave hit it on the rocks and I saw it in the air about three feet, I try swimming down to save it but Marshall help me out, I try to go to him but the corrent took me  in the rock so I had a little scar on my leg.

When we came out of the water I took the board and look at it there was only a little hole like a finger print.

I tell you if that board was fiberglass board it was coming to break in pieces.