Peace Corps week is coming up next week. I want to challenge all my friends at home to live like a Peace Corps volunteer for one day. From Sunday, the 26th of February to Saturday March 3, you too can … Continue reading →
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I wish my hair would grow faster! I am growing it out, simply because keeping it short in Ghana is near impossible. I don’t trust the barbers here with my hair, I would probably end up bald. It is at … Continue reading →
This morning I did my first farmer training. Technically, I am not supposed to “work” until middle of March. My counterpart arranged the training though and I wasn’t going to say no to farmer trainings. Especially, since it was something … Continue reading →
Tailors. I love going to the tailor. I love looking at all the pictures on the wall, picking out which design I want, explaining my own designs, picking out fabric, the whole experience. But I think my favorite part might … Continue reading →
So, I have this issue with spiders. You know nothing serious, just a extremely irrational fear that paralyzes me when I see them. It has gotten much better though! I only freak out now when I see big ones. AND … Continue reading →
Hot, hot, hot. Last night, when I was laying in bed I was wondering what the temperature was outside. I looked it up online, which means it probably wasn’t entirely accurate, but whatever. At 10pm last night it was still … Continue reading →
Ghana is playing in the African Cup. It is like the World Cup, but just for Africa Just in case Africa Cup wasn’t enough to give it away. Tonight Ghana played Tunisia in the first knockout round – the quarterfinals. … Continue reading →
I guess this is how the Peace Corps gods balance out my superb site and awesome assignment, with bank troubles. Nothing is more stressful than money – maybe being President but his troubles are all money troubles too. So yes, … Continue reading →
My town thinks I am a white celebrity. EVERYONE yells Obruni at me. The babies, the kids, the old folks, the people my age. They are all calling obruni in the hopes I will look at them and grace them … Continue reading →
I have a small problem here in Ghana. I sleep facebook. Every night around midnight or 2am, I wake up for some reason or another. It either happens in one of two ways. I completely wake up and I am … Continue reading →
My day started at the bank where I got really pissed for waiting and waiting just to find out I didn’t get paid yet. Left the bank and called Cara crying because I don’t have enough money to eat and … Continue reading →
So, we haven’t been paid yet and I am struggling. I had 10 cedis Thursday which were supposed to last me until we got paid. I bought two things that were supposed to total 1.60 with the 10. I got … Continue reading →
1. AcrobatAnt package 2. Free stuff – like food, taxi rides, private car rides, package delivery 3. Parasite is dead! Bye bye Gladys 4. I got a calendar! 5. Random adventures 6. Not getting paid and having only 10 cds … Continue reading →
So, word on the street was I had a package. I was expecting one from my old co-workers since Christmas. I haven’t been so excited for a package in ages. So it was delivered today – which is really rare, … Continue reading →
Today was the day. I broke open my box of Cheez-Its that I have been holding onto since October 6. I have traveled many many thousands of miles with that box of Cheez-Its. I was waiting for the most opportune … Continue reading →
This is what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. It just so happened to be at my executive meeting yesterday! Meeting was supposed to start at 9, didn’t start until 11. Luckily, I brought an excellent … Continue reading →
So I keep my toilet paper in my kitchen. Weird place I know, but my kitchen is close to my bathroom. Too many people use my bathroom and don’t respect the “don’t use my effing tp” rule. Mainly because there … Continue reading →
So far, I have talked to a few people about doing some projects at site. Here is what we have so far: 1. My main focus will be the Wenchi Union and SAP Project. I want to do some trainings … Continue reading →
So most of my posts and phone calls and facebook statuses are very upbeat. I do, I really like living here. There are a few things though that I don’t like, so today we are going to explore those. First … Continue reading →
So, today I decided to visit the “best fufu place in Ghana” for bankou. So I found the place and was greeted by the “driver” ?!! Okay, he told me to wait in line and that the bankou was coming. … Continue reading →
So I have been manually typing up all the farmer registrations we have been doing for the past two weeks. It is 700+ pages of information that is all being shoved into an excel spreadsheet. Which if you know me, … Continue reading →
Story time! So my counterpart told me this story in the taxi today. I loved it and wanted to share it with you. So there was a women who was very impatient and wanted to marry this man very badly. … Continue reading →
So, I have been out registering farmers all week. The villages my counterpart and I visited for this project are by far the most remote villages I have been to in Ghana. The roads were what you think of when … Continue reading →
Two things:1. I spent a good 10 minutes on the floor of my kitchen crying over the phone to my mom. Why? I spoiled my chicken and burnt my rice. I somehow managed to end up blaming it all on … Continue reading →
So you may be wondering exactly what I do here in Ghana. Well besides eat and sleep, I actually do have a job. I am working with the Peace Corps Ghana Cashew Initiative. I think the acronym is something like … Continue reading →
So my counterpart and I get along very well. I really enjoy spending time with her. Christmas in Ghana is a little different though. The 24th isn’t really celebrated. The 25th you go to church – which I did not … Continue reading →
So in Ghana, it is still acceptable to have multiple wives. I haven’t seen it much here in my town, but apparently up north it is more common. It is still not huge though. Well, I have embraced the idea … Continue reading →
So now that I have been here over a week, I thought I would update you on my big move to my new town! I got to my site late at night and covered in dirty dirty filth. I seriously … Continue reading →
I need to type up a real blog post, but this will do for now: I have a shower – real working shower My kitchen is HUGE. I don’t have anything to put all my stuff away in/on so I … Continue reading →
A few very quick updates Training is wrapping up and I have less than a week left. Training was stressful, fun, exciting, boring, enlightening, long, and short. It was a whirlwind and I am glad that it is almost over. … Continue reading →
How do I spend my money in Ghana? Well first of all, what money? The money I do have goes to the following: Cash and Carry junk food, taxi fares, internet cafes, phone credits – that stuff adds up!, and … Continue reading →
So, I have a slight problem. And it is food. I love it too much. I am foodsick. I miss deliciousness. Cheese, burritos, pizza, deli slices of meat, cream cheese, yoghurt, good tasting fish. The list goes on and on. … Continue reading →
Ahhh college, so many memories, so much knowledge that was thrown into my brain. If I remember one thing from college it was SWOT analysis. Marketing majors, how many times did you have to throw this around for every project … Continue reading →
Peace Corps is just as much a volunteer development experience as it is a time to read every book known to man. When you are busy it feels as if the world is spinning in a million directions around you, … Continue reading →
My birthday My first Ghanaian birthday was actually pretty amazing. It was definitely better than many of my past birthdays. I am looking at you friends you always blew off my birthdays. Yeah you. Anyway! It started the weekend before … Continue reading →
Thanksgiving, like in America, started a few days before. Janette and I were the main organizers for Thanksgiving. We planned out the menu, figured out amounts, and had people sign up to help. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Janette and I … Continue reading →
Monastery: or how 7 Americans got stranded and pissed off So, we were told at the beginning of training and on our schedule that we would be staying at the monastery while in Techiman. We were told a lot of … Continue reading →
Thanksgiving is over, technical training is over, massive traveling is over. I am in the home stretch! We are in Kumasi right now, but won’t be in a few hours. We are headed back to homestays. I am really looking … Continue reading →
On the road again. This time we are going to bolga. It was awesome though because i got a ton of packages this week and i was able to drop them off at my site yesterday! We visited my office … Continue reading →
Okay, so a better update! I feel much better today! I actually slept in, had amazing meals yesterday and overall just feel better. Plus, someone else is washing my filthy clothes. SCORE. Seriously, those tro clothes were covered in pure … Continue reading →
Yesterday sucked = traveling ALL day in dirty tros with no lunch and no water. NOT FUN. Going to the wrong place because no one told us otherwise. NOT FUN. Walking a mile with my bags down a dirt road … Continue reading →
Sitting next to another pct on a tro headed to our site visits. There is not enough room for my legs so i am squeezed in. The guy in the front has his music playing for everyone, plus the radio … Continue reading →
Since my birthday is right around the corner, here is some info on care packages: Send in a padded envelope through the post office. DO NOT DECLARE ANYTHING. Say religious materials or letters. The address I distributed is good for … Continue reading →
I probably wont be able to update for a month. We will be travelling for technical training all november. So sorry in advance. I just wanted to give a quick update. I still love it here! This country already feels … Continue reading →
So, my site announcement. Here is how it went: so we had training beforehand and all of us were really excited and nervous about announcements. Finally after lunch they brought us over to the side and under the outdoor pavilion … Continue reading →
So my typical day is: Wake up around 5:20 or earlier. Get water from the barrel for my bucket bath. Fill the bucket until it is almost full. Grab my stuff and take a bucket bath. (I actually really like … Continue reading →
Woke up this morning with a nasty eye problem. My left eye burns and it hurts to close it. It is also hard to see out of it, just really fuzzy. I woke up with this at 4 am and … Continue reading →
To all future Natural Resource Management Ghana volunteers – which includes business and environment people (by the way, this group will start training every October – WATSAN in Feb, and Education in June): bring “work” clothes. Even you businessy people. … Continue reading →
Things I am glad I brought: Headlamp Lots of underwear Good face wash A spray bottle – I fill it with water then fan my face My own pillow A camelback water bottle A good thermometer EARPLUGS – do not … Continue reading →
Warning: lots of long posts incoming. Ahhh Ghana. So far I really like it here. I am at my homestay now, which means I am living with a host family in a town near my training site. Right now I … Continue reading →
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