more from the past...

January 18 at 12:31pm
on sat. i was hanging out with friends on campus and eatting lots of fresh fruit and an egg sandwich and three of my friends here and i i decided to go to the beach. this beach is called "la bodi beach" took the tro, again, and got dropped off at a stop half an h0our away fromthe beach for some reason. once we got there we went to the la bodi hotel, payed the guard to let us on the beach (he quickly pocketed the money for himself) and we were on our way. the sand was beautiful the people were nice and while the water had some trash in it it was clear blue. Just so you know, the way to get beach vendors away from you is to tell them you dont even have enough money to get home. they feel bad for you and leave you alone. in the evening we left, full of sand, and salt and satisfied. sunday some of us went to the Ossu childrens home. its an orphange that some of us will be working at this semester. the kids are real sweet and in need of direction. more on that later, but it should be good. then we had another welcome meal and now its monday and classes are starting. hope everyone is well and love you tons.

January 25 at 12:45pm
this weeks success stories in no specific order:-getting amazingly soft dance/genie pants made for me at the shop attached to my house-getting attacked by a disgusting bout of food poisoning which caused me to throw up into the gutters on friday morning on my way back from a friends house (we were going to pick her up so we could all walk to the bus for a feildtrip, i said i felt sick and was going to go home... on the way x,y, and z.)-getting a war wound (a cut on my finger) from doing laundry, but being very successful at washing my clothes in a bucket non the less. -taking my first drumming lesson from a Ghanian friend named Jimi and of course getting a battle wound from that as well.and then almost missing the welcome dinner because i didnt leave my drumming and hang out session on time. - going to the haiti relief concert at alliance francais here and ghana and listening to many famous ghanian singers for only 5ghc, which equals maybe three dollars.

January 25 at 12:55pm
-being able to say things like Y(backwards 3)K(backwards c) shiashi which means we are going to shiashi (a tro stop)or Medin (backwards 3)mo ne panoo daa = i eat rice and bread everyday. or mep(backwards 3) abor(backwards c)b(backwards 3) ne ankaa. =i like pinapple and oranges.

that... and more