Instead of saying ‘the day after tomorrow,’ Ghanaians say ‘tomorrow next.’ It’s so much easier! Listen up, America. So tomorrow next is my flight! Everything is going really well in Accra. The busride only took twelve hours instead of fourteen, I ate banku with mega fish and crab last night, the smoothie place now has [...]
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Well, I’ve left school. Yesterday I got to Bolga early and took the 6am bus to Tamale, where I am now. On Sunday, I’ll take one last fabulous bus ride to Accra, do official distings for three days and then fly out on the 28th. So soon. “Goodbye” is sometimes used as a verb here [...]
1. I’ve had vivid food dreams that past two nights. In one of them, I was at a mongolian bbq place. The line where you get the stuff started out normal but then it turned into cereal – specifically Lucky Charms and Cheerios – and blueberries. In the other, there was a big bunch of [...]
A few things: - My good friend Julius got accepted into Ghana’s Air Force! The selection process was very difficult and he’s super excited about it. He leaves next week to go to basic training in Takoradi for six months. It seems somehow appropriate that we are leaving Tongo at the same time. I’m really [...]
As of tomorrow I have one month left as an active PCV. What! Here’s another ABC for you, as seen from the end. A is for…..Agana and Anita, aka children who used to run away screaming whenever they saw my scary white whiteness but now are my best little friends ever. Anita was the first [...]
Yes they do. So it’s officially rainy season, but, really, it’s been a pretty lame one so far. It’s really acting more like hot season with some teasingly dark clouds in the distance that never amount to the desired outcome. Last night the lights went out around ten and I woke up ridiculously sweaty. I [...]
Well well. Happy Saturday/End of the World to you! I’m in Bolga because I need to charge my phone and ipod and lights are out in Tongo. The other day there was a big storm and it knocked down several poles leading from Bolga to Tongo. So basically, we’re having lights out for the next [...]
So, I went paragliding two days ago! What? Yes. Every year around Easter weekend, there is a paragliding festival in the Eastern Region. I didn’t go last year and decided I should do it this year to expand horizons etc etc etc so I did Peggy, another guy and I leftKumasiin the morning and got [...]
Wow! Okay! Sorry for the delay in updating. I’ve been back in Ghana for two weeks and all is well. Actually right now I should be on a bus to Kumasi, but the people at the bus station said the bus is MIA and might not show up until 1 pm. It was supposed to [...]
Holy moly, I’m ready to get out of the sweat/shower cycle. Accra is less of a furnace than the Upper East, but still. Still. And, totally mixing up the cycle, have been the freezing cold places – the bus ride here, this internet cafe and, soon, the airport. Bam Shazam – The Airport! My flight [...]
I greet you from March and can now confirm Fataiya’s statement about days in March being extra long. The heat just stretches time out. It’s particularly bad when the lights go out and you are without your best friend, the overhead fan. There was one day last week, in the afternoon, when I tried to [...]
Hello and welcome to hot season. Glorious glorious hot season. Season of endless face sweat. Season of sunlight feeling like something physically touching you. Season of middle of the night cool-down showers. Fataiya told me the other day that because it’s so hot all though the month of March, the days during March are actually [...]
1. Two nights ago, I walked to the dam and ran into this man that I sometimes run into at the dam. His name is Steven and I’ve never seen him wearing anything but an old sports jacket and a pair of old boxers. He pulled three fresh fish out his bag and gave them [...]
So here are some pictures from working on making our beads! This is the first step – the glass pounding. The bottles go into the metal mortar and are pounded until fine. The powder is sifted, the bigger chunks go back into the mortar, etc. until all the glass is finely pounded. Attached to the bottom [...]
Hello from the Republic of Georgia, lovely readers of Katharyn’s blog! You may be confused right now. “But wait”, you’re thinking, “I thought Katharyn was doing Peace Corps in Ghana. Also, why is she talking about herself in the third person?” Well, you weren’t wrong! And she isn’t! This is Christopher, writing an insofar unprecedented [...]
Kats and kittens, I think Harmattan is over. The windy wind has settled down and the afternoons are now steam steam steamalicious. Meaning I sweat a lot (more) and want to bath all the time. Also, my lip balm is perpetually melted. I have a new mission at school and that mission is teaching these [...]
I know, I know! This is totally overdue! Like, irate-librarian-taking-away-your-library-card-overdue. And I apologize. So what is going on? Well… …Christopher and I had a great trip. Here are the picture: http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=36104381. Basically we went to Cape Coast, where we stayed at Nancy’s lovely Nancyless house. While there we went to the slave fort and to [...]
So! Here I am in Accra. I’ll tell you about my Christmas since I know you are dyyyyying to hear about it. I woke up, went for a walk, ate bananas for breakfast and then did my wash. When I wash finish, I was hanging out outside, reading the New Yorker (still pretentious) and Gilbert [...]
Of late… 1. It’s Harmattan season again. Meaning that it’s cold and night and windy all day. Meaning that I bath seldom (its too cold) and have perpetually dry skin. And by too cold I mean it’s 69 degrees. 2. A few days ago, I bought a goat liver and fed it to the everrapacious cats. [...]
Hi there, I’ll write a proper post in the next few days, but FY very exciting I, I put up more pictures on the flickr account. It’s the set called “December.”
Well, happy happy happy Farmers’ Day to you all. I saw a banner for the Farmers’ Day celebration in Bolga – the theme is “Grow More Food,” which just seems kind of funny to me. There’s no school today, so I’m in Bolga, doing random stuff and going to go over to Jake’s house later. [...]
Gosh, sorry it’s been so long since my last post. Here a summary of what’s been going on. 1. I gave wordsearches to my students. They LOVED them. Also, so did the teachers. I guess when you don’t do stuff like that when you are a kid, you don’t think of them as childish. Started [...]
Look how funny I look while signing in front of class! I was making the sign for ‘ugly.’ Here’s a picture of Andy and Lucy! Reading my yoga magazine. Yogi Lucy. Andy and I went on a walk. And I taught class again. Things have been going well. There are several fun things on the [...]
It’s a true story. I’m at the internet cafe in Bolga (the fact that, in America, people can go on the internet in their own homes! on their own computers!, seems somewhat unreal now) and the girl who works here just turned on the air conditioner – a gecko scampered out. I laughed. I love [...]
Hello there. Guess what! Classes have started! I’ve had some really awesome lessons and everything at home is fine fine fine. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. Here is a picture of me finishing the half marathon! Here are Fataiya and Jamilu, her boyfriend. Are they not adorable? Here is Just Jamilu. He’s [...]
Yesterday, on the way to the STC bus station, I had to stop and ask somebody if it was on this road or that road. Amazingly serendipitously, the woman I stopped to ask was deaf! She initially motioned for me to ask the woman next to her, but when I realized she was deaf and started [...]
I used to hate Accra. I had several reasons for this intense loathing: 1. Accra is a 16 hour busride away from Bolga. 2. It costs me almost Ghc 27 to get there. 3. Everything in Accra is expensive – taxis, food, lodging. 4. The labyrinthine tangle of Accra’s streets and mishmash of neighbourhoods are arcane [...]
27 Sept …. The half marathon was yesterday! It went really well! Here’s what Went Down. The race director was really awesome and arranged for all of the Peace Corps volunteers in West Africa to stay at the Salvation Army in Accra. So, that night morning we all woke up at the Salvation Army, at [...]
Hello, Accra greets you. I don’t have time to write much now, just wanted to say hello. Will blog about all things race/beach/Accra soon!
Bad News……….. On Tuesday, I got a call from Francis. He told me that the headmaster of my school, Mr. Francis Andiiba, had just passed away. It shocked everyone, including me. As far as everyone knew, he was healthy, but while he was in Tamale at a workshop, he fell sick and died. This is [...]
Sometimes people etc. have funny names in Ghana. You already know about Godsbig (“I named him that because I wanted everyone to know that God…is big.”) but there is also God Bless You, the name of our friend Moses’ mother … Continue reading →
Try saying that outloud and that’s how you say “I’m happy” in Frafra. At least, that’s what my friend Julius told me. These past few weeks have been busy and pretty great. School was set to start on September 14th, … Continue reading →
In an occurance even more suprising than the appearance of Hershey’s syrup in Tamale, the other day, I bought two grapefruits. Let’s be clear here: never before has anyone heard of there being grapefruit in Ghana (except maybe in grocery … Continue reading →
About a week ago, I was in an obruni store (a store that sells obruni-ish things like breakfast cereal, wine that comes in bottles and canned fruit) and came across a mega bottle of Hershey’s chocolate sauce. Like, the bottle … Continue reading →
So, remember Issah, Andy’s small boy? A while ago, I wrote him a little letter and sent it with Andy. It was just small. Here is the letter that he wrote back to me. Tiyumba is Andy’s Dagbani name. Dear … Continue reading →
That’s right, fokes, new photos. I discovered that, despite previous thinking, I in fact still do not know how to use flickr. Just click on the set called “Dam, Clay Heads, Stealth” on the right side and you should see … Continue reading →
Dudez, longtime. Sorry I’ve been so anti-communication lately. Now the pain is over though, and I have several stories for you. I’ve actually got a nice little list of vignettes to share. Let’s consult that list. - A while ago … Continue reading →
Hi there. Did you see the Ghana/Uruguay football match? Ugh! That dude who handballed it out of the goal totes cheated. Boo for cheaters. Ghana was sad. However, some happiness did come to pass in a little part of Ghana … Continue reading →
I have three things on my “to blog about” list today. 1. I’m reading this really good book that you should probably definitely read too. It’s called Hustling Is Not Stealing and it’s by John M. Chernoff. Basically, its a … Continue reading →
Two days ago I walked into town to buy some kenkey and drink some beer. Tough life, right? I manage. So I was walking and was almost into town when I came across this old, old man who started changing … Continue reading →
Hello once agian from the beautiful and arctic Vodaphone interwebz cafe in Tamale. I’m sorry it’s taken so long for me to write; whenever I went into town to get it done, the link was down. Sorry! But things are … Continue reading →
Okay! Pictures are fixed! Just click on the set called “Out. About.” Enjoy.
Okay, I think I figured out how to reorder pictures on Flickr. I’m going to try to do that as soon as I’m done writing this post. I made this marvelous realization while I was putting up more pictures on … Continue reading →
Okay, friends: I put up more pictures for your viewing pleasure (http://www.flickr.com/photos/katharynreed) I still do not posess the necessary, arcane intellectual skills to properly work Flickr, but they’re up there. Because I can’t figure out how to reorder them, here is some … Continue reading →
Okay, I’m on a food kick. I can’t help it. This is the website I’ve been spending the majority of my super expensive Vodaphone internet cafe time looking at. I WANT TO EAT ALL OF IT. Disgusting but true. In opposing news, I had a really nice run this morning and will be heading back [...]
I have to say, I think I eat better here in Ghana than I do at home. Tonight is a perfect example. This is what we (me and about six other PCVs) are making at the TSO for our evening meal: Pizza with homemade crust, Italian cheese and salami (DIRECT FROM ITALY. Craig, one of [...]
Okay, so. At Joy’s house I was just sitting there, minding my own business, eating banana slices in brownie batter (yeah) when SHAZAM. This was staring up at me. Look at that face! Seriously, it scared me. I saved it for last. This is the kind of thing that totally makes my day here.
Wow, okay, sorry I haven’t posted in so long. I’ve been out and about. OUT and ABOUT. Here are the haps! On the twentieth, I woke up at 3:30 in the morning, walked to the station in Bolga and got tickets for me and Peggy for the bus to Wa. The bus left around 5:thirty [...]
Remember that half-marathon Peggy and I are running in September? Here is the infoz: http://www.aimghana.com/ .
Here I am, at the internet cafe with my four amazing spellers and Fataiya. It’s air conditioned in here, which feels lovely on my new rasher of heat rash. Yep, it’s back in action. Hot season is also back in action, seriously. The afternoons have become minimal clothing/maximal time spent under high speed fan time. [...]
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